National Security
- MLI study on Canada's critical infrastructure highlighted in the Toronto Sun December 7, 2011
December 7, 2010 - MLI's recently released study on the threats to Canada's critical infrastructure was highlighted in the Toronto Sun. In the article, author Andrew Graham discusses specifically how Canada's cyber security is at risk. He said that C...
- MLI Paper - Canada’s critical infrastructure: Vulnerable to terrorists, hackers, thieves and neglect December 6, 2011
MEDIA RELEASE December 6, 2011 – Like the air that we breathe, we are not aware of the extent to which our lives depend on the critical infrastructure (CI) that surrounds us, operating quietly in the background. Much of that infrastructure is rela...
- MLI Senior Fellow Alex Wilner in Embassy Magazine: Canada's Mission to Libya - The Sequel December 1, 2011
December 1, 2011 - In a new article for Embassy Magazine, MLI Senior Fellow Alex Wilner discusses how we need to locate, secure and destroy Gaddafi's vast stockpile of dangerous weapons before it falls into the wrong the hands. The article is based on ...
- MLI Commentary - Keep momentum in the Arab Spring and al Qaeda on the run: Canada’s new Middle East mission November 28, 2011
MEDIA RELEASE November 28, 2011, Ottawa, ON – The missing weapons in Libya and the ensuing risk that these weapons could land in the hands of al Qaeda have highlighted serious security issues for Canada and other Western countries. In a new study ...
- Much good news and some worrying results in new study of Muslim public opinion in Canada November 1, 2011
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...
- How Ottawa should deal with al-Shabab and terror groups recruiting Canadians July 29, 2011
July 29, 2011 - Recently, media coverage has been focusing on the recruitment of Somali-Canadians by the terror group al-Shabab, but MLI has been at the forefront of this issue. Alex Wilner, MLI fellow and senior researcher at the Centre for Se...
- MLI Commentary on Canada's Defence Strategy in the Media June 6, 2011
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, "Keep...
- We have a duty to defend our values May 7, 2011
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, whi...
