By Brian Lee Crowley, National Post, February 28, 2011 Just how bad is crime in Canada… and how can we tell? Since our institute published Scott Newark’s paper on Canadian crime statistics, many critics, including John Moore (“Having fun with Numbers”, Feb. 23) have indignantly argued that there is a single objective reality about crime ...
By Brian Lee Crowley In today’s National Post, Liberal Finance critic Scott Brison makes his case for why this is the wrong time for carrying through on the corporate tax cuts that have been the policy of every federal finance minister since Paul Martin. Brison is certainly correct that circumstances now are different since those ...
MLI Fellow Alex Wilner’s article “Deterring the Undeterrable: Coercion, Denial, and Delegitimization in Counterterrorism”, which won the Journal of Strategic Studies (JSS) 2010 Amos Perlmutter Prize and was previewed in the Vancouver Sun last week, has been published in the latest JSS. Congratulations, Alex!
I see my analysis of the StatsCan 2009 Police reported crime statistics has ruffled a few feathers and caused some responses both critical and supportive. Frankly, that’s a good thing because this is a subject that could do with some light of day and informed debate. The latest comment was authored by Professor Tony Doob ...
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute today released a Commentary, Prison Radicalization in Canada: More needs to be done, dealing with the increasingly important and contentious issue of how we handle terrorists in our penal system. Following on last October’s groundbreaking MLI publication, From Rehabilitation to Recruitment, Alex Wilner and Brian Lee Crowley target the continuing overall lack ...
In today’s Ottawa Citizen, eminent Canadian historian and MLI Research Advisory Board member Jack Granatstein deftly punctures a series of foolish idea about recent turmoil in Egypt, starting with the notion that democracy is now inevitable, moving on to the notion promoted by certain columnists that Canada’s government was mistaken to emphasize stability, and finishing ...
A column by Lorrie Goldstein for the Sun/QMI chain (appearing in the Ottawa Sun, Toronto Sun and London Free Press among others) cites Scott Newark’s Why Canadian Crime Statistics Don’t Add Up. Goldstein starts by saying even if crime is slightly down recently it’s way up since the early 1960s, then brings in Newark’s paper ...
Scott Newark was on CBC’s The Current today to discuss his latest publication for MLI, Why Canadian crime statistics don’t add up: Not the whole truth. Click here to listen.
MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley was on John Gormley Live earlier today, to talk about his latest commentary, Trading in Superstitions.
MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley was on the Dave Rutherford show yesterday to discuss his latest commentary, Trading in Superstitions. You can hear the interview here (set to and click on February 14, 11:00 AM).
