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“The United States will do everything to make life as difficult as possible [for Iran], and we know that there are ongoing negotiations being facilitated by Qatar. So this is also a negotiation ploy to signal to the Iranian regime that the United States continues to be very serious about containing Iran and that it's in the Iranian regime's interest to negotiate, and negotiate in better faith than it has if it wants to survive and sustain itself.”

MLI Senior Fellow Christian Leuprecht joins @CTVNews to discuss the U.S. launch of a task force aimed at blocking Iran’s arms flow and the broader strategy behind the move.

“Whether governed under the Indian Act, modern treaty, or self-government agreement, First Nations governments should be taking advantage of this generational moment and seeking out every economic opportunity possible to revitalize their local economies. It’s time that we move ourselves from a handout to a handshake, in business and in governance,” writes Karen Restoule (@karenrestoule), director of indigenous affairs at MLI in @TheHubCanada.

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"@Josephbvarner, a sr. fellow with @MLInstitute... told the Sun that DND was given orders to cut an additional 10% from this year’s operations & maintenance budget...

'There must be some directive... My understanding is it was issued by PMO.'”
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“The post–White Paper vision of Indigenous rights has always had this unresolved tension at its core. Are we eliminating discrimination, or building separate forms of citizenship? Some people are fine with separate status. They tend to be idealistic progressives who gain a kind of cultural status from their own self-sacrifice, virtue signalling what good people they are. That this makes for a lasting, peaceable country is far more doubtful,” writes MLI Senior Fellow Christopher Dummitt in the National Post (@nationalpost).

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Canada’s border security debate tends to focus on what crosses the border: drugs, firearms, illicit goods, and people. But that’s only part of the picture. Criminal networks often operate across multiple jurisdictions, sometimes in ways that serve or intersect with the interests of hostile foreign states. The threats they pose go well beyond illicit smuggling.

In “Beyond the border: Disrupting criminal networks,” Laura Dawson (@DawsonCanada), executive director of the Future Borders Coalition, explains why Canada must move beyond traditional border enforcement and work to identify and dismantle the criminal networks behind illicit border activities.

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