The vulnerabilities of Canada’s asylum laws were made evident when Abdulahi Hasan Sharif conducted a terrorist attack in Edmonton (the Somali was sentenced last week). Simply asking for asylum at the border of most Western countries sets in motion a process that can take years. Todd Bensam reports on how a broken asylum system facilitates the movement and planning of Islamist terrorists.
At Least He Paid his Losing Bet
Paul Ehrlich, author of the spectacularly incorrect 1968 best-seller The Population Bomb, recently died at 93. Despite his longevity, Ronald Bailey points out in Reason, Ehrlich did not live to see even one of his numerous apocalyptic predictions come true. The world’s population certainly grew, but not merely larger, richer and fatter too. Most famously, Ehrlich once bet economist Julian Simon that the world was approaching economic collapse – but in 1990 had to mail Simon a cheque.
