Europe and America are drifting apart while Canada watches. And yet the trans-Atlantic (TA) relationship, forged at the end of the Second World War, has been the anchor of foreign policy for all three partners for two generations. America’s relative decline, the rise of other issues and players attracting its attention, and Europe’s inability to ...
In the aftermath of the arrival of the ‘Sun Sea’ on Canada’s west coast in August, there is a growing level of concern being expressed about people-smuggling. Most recently, we hear that the federal government is contemplating action to help stem the tide of this despicable endeavour. “Some media have pointed out that while there ...
The Chronicle-Herald in Halifax has become the latest Canadian paper to publish MLI Fellow Alex Wilner’s recent Op-Ed, Turning al-Qaida into heretical thugs. Alex and MLI have now appeared from Vancouver to Winnipeg to Halifax, and Canadians from coast to coast have been able to read this timely and thoughtful article. In part, he wrote: ...
Alex Wilner was a guest on yesterday’s Gormley Live on NewsTalk 980 CJME. The topic of the day was homegrown terrorism and followed up on Alex’s recent Op-Ed in both the Winnipeg Free Press and the Vancouver Sun, where he wrote: The rising threat of homegrown terrorism to Canada and its G8 and NATO allies ...
MLI Fellow Alex Wilner landed his current Op-Ed in Canada’s heartland in today’s Winnipeg Free Press. He writes in the piece on delegitimizing terrorism: The core of my message is straightforward — Islamist radicalization is the linchpin of homegrown terrorism in the West. We can fight the results through military and police methods. But in ...
Proving yet again that the Macdonald-Laurier Institute is on top of issues as they happen, Dr. Alex Wilner, an MLI Fellow, appears on the Vancouver Sun editorial pages today with a timely Op-Ed titled: Why we need to fight terrorism intellectually. He writes: The rising threat of homegrown terrorism to Canada and its G8 and ...
The news that the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had arrested two men for alleged involvement in an al Qaeda-linked terror plot, and that further arrests are expected today, is an important reminder of the need for continued vigilance regarding terrorists attacks in North America. It is also proof ...
Last week the Macdonald-Laurier Institute published a Commentary, The ‘Sun Sea’ Tamil Mass Refugee Claim: An Opportunity For Needed Reforms, by Scott Newark. Since the publication, Newark has been a busy individual. He has been on with Roy Green on CKOM, on the “John Gormley Live Show” (first clip, below) on NewsTalk 650 in Saskatoon, ...
On Sunday the Netherlands completed its retreat from Afghanistan, pulling out the remnants of a 1,950-strong contingent. In so doing, the Dutch bid farewell to a mission they began and led in 2006 in Uruzgan province, a mission in which 24 Dutch soldiers lost their lives. The Netherlands now has the dubious distinction of being the ...
WikiLeaks shot to fame in April 2010 when it posted a video of a 2007 US Army assault in Baghdad. Not for the faint of heart, the grainy video is taken from a roving gunship circling a group of men suspected of being militants. Tragically, cameras are mistaken for RPGs and civilians for insurgents. After ...
