How Ottawa 67's got bigger, Shorter and found a diamond in the rough at OHL draft

I n the days after 9/11, the United States and Canada feared that another attack on the West was imminent. The George W. Bush and Jean Chrétien administrations envisaged the possibility of al-Qaeda cells operating all across North America. There was, of course, no data on whether this was the case. But what is certain is that few threats materialized for several years. In Canada, the first credible threat occurred a full five years after 9/11, with the Toronto 18 plot of 2006, which saw a group of Muslims contemplate attacks on the Toronto Stock Exchange. In 2007, the US Department of...