Episode 3.32: Terrorism and Authoritarian Regimes

In episode 32 of season 3 (recorded on voting day), Co-hosts Linna Tam-Seto (Assistant Professor Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy within the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto) and Steve Saideman discuss Canada’s federal election and Conservative anti-woke messaging along with how the next government can improve CAF recruitment and retention issues through a focus on healthcare, housing and procurement. Today's Feature Interview is with Michael Collins – Executive Director, The Americas, Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) https://www.economicsandpeace.org/about/ This year will be the 12th edition of the Global Terrorism Index (GTI). The report provides a comprehensive summary of the key global trends and patterns in terrorism over the last decade. The calculation of the GTI score considers not only deaths but also incidents, hostages and injuries from terrorism, weighted over a five-year period. The report is produced using event records on terrorist attacks since 1 January 2007. The current terrorism dataset contains over 66,000 terrorist incidents for the period 2007 until today. The GTI ranks 163 countries based on four indicators weighted over five years. A country’s annual GTI score is based on a unique scoring system to account for the relative impact of incidents in the year.