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RCMP asks for help handling troubling number of kids radicalizing online

Canadians as young as 12 being drawn to extremist views, Mountie warns

CBC NewsCatharine Tunney

When RCMP Supt. Jean-Guy Isaya first started as a police officer 20 years ago, school outreach involved drug safety programs.

Now the Mountie says there's a growing need to talk to kids about violent extremism.

"We believe that young people and minors pose the same threat as adults," said Isaya, who works in the RCMP's national security team.

"This trend is certainly continuing and it doesn't seem to want to disappear."

It's why the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, along with ot…

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RCMP asks for help handling troubling number of kids radicalizing online

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