Episode 3.21: The Cookie Crumbles: US Election and Canadian Security


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Nov 06 2024 63 mins   4
In our twenty-first episode of Battle Rhythm season 3, Steve Saideman and Dr. Wendy H. Wong (Professor of Political Science and Principal’s Research Chair at the University of British Columbia) trade baking schedules and recipes before diving into US election campaign strategies, Canada’s 2% defence spending prospects, plus the US and China relationship.

Today’s feature interview is with co-author Stephane Leman-Langlois of “The Great Right North: Inside Far-Right Activism in Canada” written by Stéphane Leman-Langlois, Aurélie Campana and Samuel Tanner.

Stéphane Leman-Langlois is professor of criminology at Laval University, Québec. He holds the Canada Research Chair on Surveillance and the Social Construction of Risk. He is director of the Terrorism and Counterterrorism Research Group and of the Centre on International Security at Laval University. He is also co-director of the Observatoire sur la radicalisation et l’extrémisme violent (OSR).

As a co-investigator of the Big Data Surveillance project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Stéphane Leman-Langlois is co-leading (with Valerie Steeves) research Stream Three: Governance. This stream will examine the use of big data for policing and other forms of social control.