“We have invited many distinguished guests, like ministers, members of parliament, ambassadors and councils, and more than one thousand visiting professionals – businessmen, doctors, university professors,” Abdessalem said.

“It’s really to be the premier forum in Canada to discuss what can be done and find solutions to the growing global threat of violent extremism,” Kyle Matthews said. “We’re really trying to bring together a group of some of the top minds in Canada to build a network of leaders that are going to move on and help us deal with this global scourge, which seems to be growing, not diminishing.”

“Over the last ten years the prices of a lot wildlife commodities have gone up worldwide,” said Sheldon Jordan, director general for Wildlife Enforcement at the department of Environment and Climate Change Canada. “For example, rhinoceros horn is worth is weight in gold.”

Prof. David Gerhard says the Yahoo hack is a good reminder for everyone to take online security precautions.

Maude Barlow, water crisis, boiling point

“It is an exceptionally sensational topic since it brings together climate change, the Arctic, nuclear waste, Cold War history, a bunch of threads come together in this storyline, which is why we say it is a bit of microcosm of climate change tale,” said William Colgin, assistant professor at the Lassonde School of Engineering at Toronto’s York University, and the lead author of the study.

OpenMedia’s David Christopher says Canada’s ‘extreme surveillance powers…have no place in a healthy democracy.’

Signy Arnason says people can report suspected child sexual abuse hopefully, before images ever get on to the internet.

Madeleine Thien describes her novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing and why Canada ‘is a great place to be an artist.’

“I’d warn him off Mali. That’s going to be a very intense mission,” said Saideman, Paterson Chair in International Affairs at Carleton University and author of Adapting in the Dust: Learning Lessons from Canada’s War in Afghanistan. “The experts I have talked to compare it to Iraq.”