MEDIA RELEASE November 1, 2011, Ottawa, ON – At a time when Muslims constitute one of Canada’s fastest growing immigrant communities and Islam the fastest-growing religion, Canadians will find much to reassure them, but also much to ponder, in a new study of Muslim public opinion in Canada published today by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI). ...
September 28, 2011 – In today’s National Post, new MLI Senior Fellow and Law Professor Benjamin Perrin discusses the criminal justice reforms included in the Safe Streets and Communities Act. He says, “While not perfect, the bill introduces numerous reforms that will improve our nation’s criminal justice system.” Article below: The government’s omnibus crime ...
September 13, 2011, Ottawa, ON – A disproportionately large volume of crime in this country is committed by a disproportionately small number of offenders. Dealing effectively with these repeat offenders is central to improving the public safety of Canadians according to the latest instalment in the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s newest series, Straight Talk, in which crime-expert ...
In the September 5th, 2011 issue of the Toronto Star, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley discusses the latest comments by Conrad Black against the government’s tougher sentencing bills, prison expansion plans, and prisoner control programs. In the article, Crowley said Black is unlikely to sway the debate in Canada “partly because…he’s in kind of a conflict ...
August 2, 2011 – In today’s National Post, Scott Newark discusses StatsCan’s recently released report on 2010 crime data in Canada. In the article, “Let’s be honest about crime“, Newark examines the “crime is down” message in the report and highlights a number of improvements as well as areas that still require further information. On improvements to the report, ...
May 13, 2011 – Scott Newark’s analysis of the StatsCan 2009 police-reported crime statistics has sparked much debate since its release. More importantly, it is shedding some light on the analysis of crime data in hopes to create more accurate and relevant information for Canadians. Over the past week, Newark presented his findings at the Canadian ...
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) today released a Commentary, Myths and Urban Legends concerning Crime in Canada, written by Ian Lee, PhD, Associate Professor at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business. Responding to the “angry and sustained response from criminologists” to MLI’s February study Why Canadian crime statistics do not add up: not the whole truth ...
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) today released a Commentary, Revolution on an Empty Stomach, written by John Thompson, the head of the Mackenzie Institute. Every day we are inundated with news of revolution and unrest around the world. From Algeria to Yemen, it’s not necessarily corruption that is causing all the trouble. Throughout history fear of ...
On March 16, 2011, the Ottawa citizen published an article by William Watson, Associate Professor of Economics at McGill University and member of the MLI Research Advisory Board. In his article, Watson states “though many who have taken to the streets in the Middle East in the last two months have expressed their hunger for ...
By Janet Ajzenstat “Protection of property is a basic right.” So says the editorial in the National Post (Friday, February 25, 2011). So says John Locke in the Second Treatise of Government. And so say I. But should we entrench the protection in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms? No! Entrenching rights curtails legislative ...
