In the National Post on February 11, columnist Lorne Gunter uses MLI’s new study Why Canadian Crime Statistics Don’t Add Up by Scott Newark as his starting point in talking about why Canadians increasingly don’t bother reporting crimes to the policy. Read the column here.
MLI Managing Director Brian Crowley was a guest on CPAC’s Goldhawk Live this past Sunday. In the inaugural show of 2011 for Goldhawks national phone-in the question for viewers was: Has partisan politics killed leadership? It is a hot topic in the modern political environment and the host was joined by Dr. Crowley, Louise Elliott ...
What a tangled web we weave when first we practise to…subsidise political parties (with apologies to Sir Walter Scott). A number of commentators have worked themselves into a state of high dudgeon recently (most notably the editorial board of the National Post) over the perversity of the federal system for subsidising the operations of the ...
In a recent contribution to Christopher Moore’s Canadian History Blog, Mary Stokes draws our attention to the unpleasant competition between Ukrainians and Jews over the Museum’s allocation of exhibition space. The Nazi Holocaust is to have a “dedicated space.” Other documented “mass atrocities,” like the Rwandan massacres, the Cambodian Killing Fields and the Holodomor – ...
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams caught many off guard yesterday with his sudden announcement that he would be leaving politics on December 3rd. Naturally, this surprise has been cause for comment down on the Rock and across the land. Pretty much every one agrees that Mr. Williams was a masterful political force and politician. ...
What struck me about Stephen Harper’s speech yesterday to the International Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism is the absence of rhetoric. It lacks the high rhetoric style. It doesn’t sound like Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Barak Obama. It doesn’t sound like Winston Churchill. He doesn’t present himself as an exceptional person, someone privy to ...
MLI’s John Robson has a look at the US elections in his weekly column for the Ottawa Citizen today… The U.S. midterm elections had something for everyone, from Tea Party triumphs to Tea Party flameouts, progressive stalwarts hanging tough or going down hard, centrists and radicals, inspiration, pathos and comedy, principles, ideas and stupidity. It’s ...
