As Gaza demonstrates, Canada needs the tools to counter international kidnapping: Sarah Teich for Inside Policy
By Sarah Teich, December 1, 2023 The dramatic "pause" in the war in Gaza has put a spotlight on the ...
Tag: Hostage Diplomacy
Webinar Panel Video: Managing China’s Coercive Diplomacy
Though China’s hostage taking of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor has thankfully ended, the Canadian government must now sort ...
1000 Days: How Canada Should Fight Back Against Global Hostage-Taking
For Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, September 4th, 2021 marks 1,000 days as hostages of China. Canada's lack of action ...
Ep. 71 – Fighting Back Against Global Hostage-Taking with Sarah Teich and Ai-Men Lau
Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Pod Bless Canada · Ep. 71 - Fighting Against Global Hostage-Taking with Sarah Teich and Ai-Men Lau September ...
How Trudeau’s appeasement of China failed Kovrig and Spavor: Shuvaloy Majumdar in the National Post
By doing nothing, we give tacit consent to Beijing’s aggression. It is long past time that this charade was brought ...
Michael Spavor’s sham trial in China is classic hostage diplomacy: Sarah Teich in the Toronto Sun
The real issues are that Canadians have been arbitrarily detained by the CCP for years now, they are held in ...
There is nothing diplomatic about hostage diplomacy: Margaret McCuaig-Johnston in the Toronto Star
China has become dangerously comfortable with the practice of detaining foreign nationals on fabricated charges, often referred to as hostage ...
Canadian Coalition: Can it make a difference? Sarah Teich on CBC News
MLI Senior Fellow Sarah Teich joined CBC News to discuss the recent Canadian coalition to denounce arbitrary detentions by ...
A new law could help Canada fight hostage-taking by other states: Sarah Teich in the Ottawa Citizen
As the case of the two Michaels shows, the federal government has only limited options so far for action – ...
Government needs new tools to discourage hostage-taking: Sarah Teich, Shuvaloy Majumdar and Daniel Eisen in the National Post
For too long, policy-makers have sat idle while the safety of Canadians all over the world remains at risk. By ...
New legislative proposal to combat global hostage-taking
OTTAWA, ON (January 21, 2021): Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor have languished as hostages in China’s brutal prisons for ...
The #FreeChinaHostages Campaign: Charles Parton
The following is a statement written by Charles Parton marking the second anniversary of the arbitrary detention of Canadians Michael ...
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Medical organizations and media let Canadians believe gender medicine is safe and universally accepted. It’s not: 14 physicians author statement for Inside Policy
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‘One China’ second thoughts: Why Canada must support Taiwan’s resilience
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Hybrid threats, broken borders, and organized chaos—transnational organized crime in Canada: Inside Policy Q&A with Cal Chrustie
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Fighting mortgage fraud in Canada: Cameron Field
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Government subsidies for Canada’s media were supposed to be temporary, but they keep on growing—and could be here to stay: Dave Snow in The Hub
