Thursday’s episode of The Border finds Maj. Mike Kessler (James McGowan) in deep trouble. The head of the Canadian border security unit heads on a hastily-arranged mission to Afghanistan and winds up getting kidnapped by the Taliban. He’s bloodied and seriously wounded and things don’t look good. (See the above photo, where he’s being shown

How safe is The Border? We’ll find out tonight as The Border returns for a second season tonight at 9 p.m. on CBC. The Toronto-based series gained a strong foothold last winter when it was one of four scripted shows to join the CBC schedule opposite private network schedules weakened by the writers strike. It