Bret Stephens to visit Ottawa for 9/11 Memorial...

Our Next Event - Sept. 14th A 9/11 Memorial Speeches, Panel Discussion, Q&A on 9/11 and its meaning today Bret Stephens in Ottawa!     September 14th, 7 PM Library & Archives Canada 395 Wellington, Ottawa Admission: $20 ($10 for students) Speeches, Panel Discussion, Q&A, and Reception!    Tickets on sale at Compact Music (785 Bank, 206 Bank) right now. You can also buy tickets online at this link. Tickets will also be available at the door.   Please join us for a very important panel discussion on 9/11 and where we stand in the war on terror. What enemies do we face; are we prepared for the next stage of the fight; will Israel survive; and what leadership is required to ensure western civilization comes out on top? These and many other questions will be asked, and hopefully answered. Our panel will consist of: Bret Stephens, the deputy editorial page editor responsible for the international opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal. He also writes "Global View," the paper's weekly foreign-affairs column, and is a member of the Journal's editorial board. He is a regular panelist on The Journal Editorial Report, a weekly political talk show broadcast on Fox News Channel. He was also editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post from 2002 to 2004. Salim Mansur, Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario and is a graduate from University of Toronto. His last book, Delectable Lie: A Liberal Repudiation of Multiculturalism, won the 2014 Eric Hoffer Award for the most thought-provoking books.   Brian Lee Crowley, Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI), Canada's only truly national public policy think tank based in Ottawa. The MLI proposes thoughtful alternatives to Canadians and their political and opinion leaders through non-partisan and independent research and commentary. Other panelists will be announced shortly. After the panel discussion, there will be a Q&A and a reception. Body and Soul: The State of the Jewish Nation November 2, 2014 Library & Archives, Main Auditorium 395 Wellington, Ottawa 7:00 PM Admission: $20 ($10 for students) Tickets available at the door. Tickets will also be available at Compact Music (206 Bank, 785 Bank) on Thursday. Doc Emet Productions is proud to announce the November 2014 opening of this important film, which sets the record straight so eloquently and comprehensively. It not only shows the undeniable historical connection between the Jewish People and the Land of Israel, but also succeeds in debunking all of the propaganda, myths and misinformation that have become accepted as truth by so many. Film maker Gloria Greenfield will be in attendance to answer questions. Reception after the film, and Q&A with Gloria. Featured Commentators (In order of appearance): Ruth Wisse, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Robert Wistrich, Israel Finkelstein, Aren Maeir, Isaiah Gafni, Israel Bartal, James Snyder, Shalom Paul, Victor Davis Hanson, Rabbi Jeffrey Woolf, Rabbi Elie Abadie, Shmuel Trigano, Yoram Hazony, Einat Wilf, Anita Shapira, Yossi Klein Halevi, Rev. DeeDee Coleman, Rick Richman, Hillel Halkin, Benny Morris, Jonathan Sarna, Jeffrey Herf, Mark Kramer, Emanuel Ottolenghi, Alan Baker, Eugene Kontorovich, Irwin Cotler. Alan Dershowitz, Yisrael Medad, Itamar Marcus, Manfred Gerstenfeld, Luba Mayekiso, Shimon Samuels, Yosef Kuperwasser, Bret Stephens You can see the trailer here. Join Us September 30, 2014 For an important book launch with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute  Tuesday, September 30th, 2014 Reception starts at 5:30 PM RCAF Officer's Mess 158 Gloucester Street Ottawa Book Launch: $20 To Register, Click here!  The Macdonald-Laurier Institute is pleased to host the Canadian launch of F.H. Buckley's newest book "The Once and Future King", featuring a reading and discussion by the author of his groundbreaking work. By attending this event, you will not only receive a copy of "The Once and Future King" (a $31 value), you will also be donating to the Macdonald-Laurier Institute to support its mission to celebrate this nation's great achievements, and to help make Canada the best governed country in the world. "The best recent description of [the modern presidency]... A very important contribution." -National Review "Essential reading ... Buckley is the rare scholar who can write engagingly for a popular audience." -Washington Times  The Once and Future King Book Most Americans believe that the United States of America uniquely protects liberty, that it does so because of its Constitution, and that for this our thanks must go to the Founders, at their Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. Buckley's new book "The Once and Future King" debunks all these myths. America isn't the freest country around, according to think tanks that study these things. And it's not the Constitution that made it free, since parliamentary regimes are generally freer than presidential ones. What Americans have is what Buckley calls Crown government, the rule of an all-powerful president. The country began in a revolt against one King, and today we see the dawn of a new kind of monarchy. What we have is what one of the Founders, George Mason, called an "elective monarchy," which he thought was worse than the real thing. Buckley makes the case that not only is Canada's monarchical parliamentary democracy producing better outcomes for Canadians in terms of control of the executive and ability to pursue needed policies, but it has also been more successful in preserving our liberty.    EuroMaidan Ottawa and the Ukrainian National Federation, Ottawa Gatineau in partnerships with the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies and Ottawa Ukrainian Social Services are proud to present "The Winter that Changed US" - From the Front Lines of the Revolution - Babylon 13 in Ottawa. Thursday, September 4, 2014 7:00PM   St Paul's University - Amphitheatre 223 Main Street, Ottawa   Admission: voluntary, all donations go to support the filmmakers and the film From Pacific to Atlantic: Two Ukrainian filmmakers are traveling across Canada to screen their documentary film "The Winter That Changed Us", which premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2014.  The Film is about social resistance and revolution in Ukraine, and the newfound patriotism and culture in the country after the Maidan Revolution in the Winter of 2013-2014.   A Q&A with the film makers will follow the screening. PLEASE HOLD THE DATE:   Tuesday, 27 January, 2015 International Holocaust Remembrance Day           70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau Please put this date on your calendar, we will be co-hosting an event at City Hall.