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Phil Gurski

Phil Gurski worked for more than 30 years as an intelligence analyst in Canada, including 15 at CSIS. He is the author of The Threat from Within: Recognizing Al Qaeda-inspired Radicalization and Terrorism in the West. He is president and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting.


A rare insight into Canada’s most secretive spy agency

opinion | BY PHIL GURSKI | July 20, 2020

The first rule of spy club: you do not talk about spy club

opinion | BY PHIL GURSKI | July 13, 2020

More questions than answers on the Rideau Hall ‘incident’

opinion | BY PHIL GURSKI | July 6, 2020

Our problem with China is much bigger than the fate of the two Michaels

opinion | BY PHIL GURSKI | July 6, 2020

Once you think you have a handle on where terrorism is going it throws you for a loop

opinion | BY PHIL GURSKI | June 29, 2020

‘Peace in our time,’ Afghan style?

opinion | BY PHIL GURSKI | June 22, 2020

Intelligence and the next pandemic

opinion | BY PHIL GURSKI | June 11, 2020

A rare look at what keeps CSIS up at night

opinion | BY PHIL GURSKI | June 4, 2020

Privacy and our spy agencies

opinion | BY PHIL GURSKI | June 1, 2020

What will terrorism look like post-COVID?

opinion | BY PHIL GURSKI | May 20, 2020

Misogyny is horrible, but it is not ‘terrorism’

opinion | BY PHIL GURSKI | May 14, 2020

Halting disinformation in a time of pandemic: the need to tread very carefully

opinion | BY PHIL GURSKI | April 27, 2020

Surveillance and COVID-19: what if some of the cures raise equally challenging issues?

opinion | BY PHIL GURSKI | April 27, 2020

No, Canada should not be selling arms to Saudi Arabia

opinion | BY PHIL GURSKI | April 15, 2020

What now for the environmental movement in Canada?

opinion | BY PHIL GURSKI | April 13, 2020

Peace in Afghanistan? Not likely in our time

opinion | BY PHIL GURSKI | April 6, 2020