Since the release of MLI’s Commentary, Keeping Canada Strong and Free, it has appeared in several print and online publications: Trail Daily Times, June 3, 2011, “Four ideas for keeping Canada strong and free” Calgary Beacon, June 2, 2011, “Keeping Canada Strong and Free” Surrey Beacon, June 2, 2011, “Keeping Canada Strong and Free” The Commentary, ...
In his new regular column for the Ottawa Citizen, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley welcomes the news of the killing of Osama bin Laden and questions why some commentators seem to feel that the west is always wrong when it defends its values, while radical Islamists and others are too frequently given a free ...
Alex Wilner, Zurich If you didn’t know where Abbottabad, Pakistan was yesterday, you do today. That’s where Osama bin Laden was killed by American Special Forces on May 1, 2011. Mark the day; things may be different from now on. Bin Laden’s demise comes nine years and seven months after al Qaeda carried out its ...
MLI Fellow Alex Wilner will be on the Arlene Bynon Show on Talk Radio AM640 in Toronto, Sunday at 3:00 PM, to discuss Canadian-grown terrorism, and the problem it poses for the world. This interview is as a result of Alex’s article in the March 31st edition of the National Post titled Canada grows its own terrorists.
By Alex Wilner, Zurich Since August 2010, five Canadian men have been arrested on charges of facilitating homegrown and international terrorism. Hiva Alizadeh, Khurram Sher, and Misbahuddin Ahme were arrested in Ontario late last August. They stand accused of supporting terrorism in Afghanistan and of plotting attacks in Canada. In January 2011, Sayfildin Tahir-Sharif was ...
Yesterday the Macdonald-Laurier Institute issued an Op Ed by Alex Wilner, a Fellow of MLI, that outlines his views on the best ways of deterring terrorism. The article was picked up by the Epoch Times and is sure to be seen in various newspapers across the country. Click here to read the article in the ...
On March 12th, MLI contributors Dr. Robert W. Murray and Dr. Anita Dey Nuttall of the University of Alberta were in the Windsor Star with an Op Ed titled, Why the Arctic matters. First published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute on February 28, 2011, the authors raise substantial questions, as the lead indicates, “Canadians care about ...
Christopher Sands, a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, has published a briefing paper on U.S.–Canadian border cooperation in which he explores the implications of the recent bilateral summit between Prime Minister Harper and President Obama. Click here to read.
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!
On December 13 MLI Fellow Alex Wilner testified before the Special Senate Committee on Anti-Terrorism on the threat of radicalization within Canadian prisons and how to meet it. We are pleased to present here the English and French version of his remarks.
