Welcome to the latest in-person geopolitics discussion MeetUp……..
This time it’s a Burger Week hangout with friends in cybersecurity……….
We have two cybersecurity professionals, plus literally two former Army medics, a criminal investigator, and me, a mere journalist……
PM me to join next event………
Looking forward to our next in-person geopolitics discussion MeetUp group, which is booked for Tuesday, May 26 at CoWork Halifax on Quinpool........
Our guest speaker this month (May) is Cintya Hein, who was a professional photographer in Brazil and who now is a Canadian military contractor.
Hey everyone!
The OSINT Output decided that, since I’m interviewing so many folk for their blog, they’d give me an official work email:
jay@theosintoutput.com
Hit me up at that email address to be interviewed in the OSINT Output blog……
Get in touch with Tim and Chris to be on their podcast………
Welcome to the latest speaker in the speaker series I’ve been organizing monthly since June 2025……
We have people here today from Canada, China, Lebanon and Brazil……..
Our speaker this month is Tasha Clowater, with US cybersecurity firm BeyondTrust……. Fresh off of ATLSECCON……..
Jay Interviews Valerii Buzov, a Ukraine War Analyst!
By Jay Heisler, Canadian Freelance Journalist Bio: Valerii Buzov (LinkedIn Profile) is a Ukrainian geopolitical analyst and researcher focused on war, strategy, Russian imperialism, NATO, European security, and the future architecture of the…
More from the cybersecurity drinks night I organized tonight…….. At the Lower Deck in Halifax…………
Cybersecurity friends meeting for drinks ahead of the ATLSECCON conference…… Got folk here from provincial government, Halifax Partnership, AI industry and OSINT…… With two more friends on the way, in investigations………. Not bad for an event I organized myself………
Enjoy my latest interview for the OSINT Output blog, featuring an in-person mentor in Montreal………
Tasha Clowater is the next guest speaker of the monthly in-person geopolitics discussion MeetUp group event that I have been organizing since June 2025.
Join us at CoWork Halifax on Quinpool at 5pm on Tuesday, April 14.
Tasha is a cybersecurity analyst, and she is inviting her Halifax office.
Any journalists want free access as a participant in a US war game?
The last exercise was led by two retired three star US military generals, waged entirely by Zoom. Analysis was published by the Military Innovation Lab.
The event follows Chatham House rules for any analysis and publications.
Greetings from the “Trade Days” conference, organized by the Canadian International Council…. an organization that has me on its Halifax board of directors!
I haven’t had enough sleep so I’m sitting in the back of the room. But this morning I learn about trade with ASEAN, the Gulf and Brazil……..
Welcome to the latest meeting of the speaker series which I’ve been organizing monthly since June 2025………
The speaker this month is our friend Julie, a Canadian federal government financial crimes investigator.
We have seven attending, from Canada, India, Russia, Brazil and China……. The OG BRICs!!
If any editors want to see a history/general interest piece about US Civil War spies in the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia and the surrounding Atlantic Canada region, PM me for a draft or a detailed pitch.........
Greetings from the Third Wednesday tech and media happy hour……..
I was working the room, coffee in hand tonight, inviting five new people to the in-person geopolitics discussion MeetUp group I organize every month……….
The only way to do community-building is through being always “on duty.”
My latest guest blog interview…….
Martin So is on our latest blog interviewed by @jayheisler.bsky.social!
Check it out at theosintoutput.com/2026/03/15/j...
My official OSINT Output baseball cap has arrived in the mail.
Thanks Tim Farmer and Chris St. Germain for mailing me some free SWAG, since I’m a writer for their blog.
Next guest blog post is out this weekend……..
Feel free to reach out to Tim and Chris about their podcast or about their blog.
My editors at the OSINT Output blog, Tim Farmer and Chris St. Germain, are mailing me this awesome hat.
Feel free to reach out to Tim and Chris about their podcast/blog.
My most recent interview I published on the blog was with retired UK diplomat Greg Quinn…….
I've changed the topic of my next Canadian Naval Review piece, to the topic of Canadian Navy art.
If you can PM me with resources about Canadian Navy art, or Canadian military art in general, that would be incredible.
Anytime in the next month (so anytime you see this post, it isn't too late).
Thanks are owed to Jeremy Boss for hosting me for his full-day Black Horizon war game today. I learned lots with the firsthand advice of retired three star US military general Milford Beagle Jr., who joined the live breakout rooms to weigh in. I even made some friends from people on my team!
Our next in-person geopolitics discussion MeetUp group event is planned for Tuesday, March 24 at 5pm at CoWork Halifax on Quinpool.
The speaker will be my friend Julie, who will speak with us about the art and science of finance investigations.
PM me if you'd like to be a future speaker!
Hey everyone! Please listen this free album by my friend who is from Quebec and deployed as active duty military in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He has approved this post.........
From my friend:
“Please give it a listen. It's free to you and generates coffee money for me."
Hey everyone! Welcome to the eleventh monthly in-person geopolitics discussion MeetUp group I’ve been organizing.
Thanks to my friend Anton Kats for agreeing to be the speaker this month……. Anton is a Ukraine War activist based here in Halifax, well known in the local tech scene…….
Just registered for my first course at Athabasca University in the Masters of Education program! I honestly think that everyone should immediately start re-skilling for jobs that will buy time during AI layoffs. That extra decade or two of employment is, in fact, going to make quite the difference.
If any journalists in my network want to meet an OSINT company CEO, he's open to interviews.
He just made his company's main product publicly available for free to help people trying to support the safety of Canadians in Mexico.
The CEO is currently a reservist in the Canadian Armed Forces.
I've been offered a last-minute seat in the Black Horizon war game. Featuring US Lieutenant General (Retired) Milford H. Beagle Jr. It will run Feb 25-Feb 26 and I have cleared my schedule. Luckily it's on US Central Time, so it starting at 9am means I still get to wake up for a leisurely 11am.
Hey everyone! Please enjoy this song by my friend who is from Quebec deployed as active duty military in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He has coauthored this post!
open.spotify.com/artist/2UW45...
Happy to say I will be in Toronto in May, speaking at the "Madness, Mysticism, and the Reenchantment of Psychology" conference at York University, May 14-16, 2026.
The conference is organized by American Psychological Association's Division 24 society.
