Category Public Safety Canada

Assassination, Assassination of Charlie Kirk, Close Protection, Event Security, Physical Security, Political Polarization, Political Violence, Public Safety Canada, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Security, Security Failures, United States of America, VIP Protection

Assassination of Charlie Kirk: Security Failures and Vantage-Point Vulnerabilities

Assassination of Charlie Kirk: Security Failures and Vantage-Point Vulnerabilities Introduction: Event Reconstruction and Open-Source Timeline TL;DR It is a critical security practice to secure elevated vantage points so a security team’s protectee does not get assassinated. This challenge will only…

Kevin J.S. Duska Jr.
September 10, 2025
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Access to Information (Canada), Adversarial OSINT, Bureaucratic Legitimacy, Bureaucratic Misconduct, Bureaucratic Suppression of Information, Bureaucratic Violence, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Counter-Surveillance, Data, Decentralization, Department of National Defence, Digital Resistance, Fraud, Abuse, and Waste, Illicit Government Surveillance, Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED), Library and Archives Canada, Metadata, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), Privacy Act (Canada), Privy Council Office, Public Safety Canada, Resistance, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Surveillance, Transport Canada, United States Secret Service

Metadata as Method: Adversarial OSINT and the Canadian Transparency Regime

Metadata as Method: Adversarial OSINT and the Canadian Transparency Regime Introduction: The Unseen Feedback Loop In Canada’s freedom-of-information arena, an unexpected feedback loop has emerged. Citizens file Access to Information (ATIP) requests seeking government records, but evidence shows that federal…