His assistant would have been killed, except that the device's battery had become disconnected through mishandling by Canada Post.

In July 1995, members of the Animal Liberation Front reportedly sent a pipe bomb to Thompson's office in Toronto. Thompson, often appears as a television contributor on terrorism and military issues in Canada. The institute is named after Canadian explorer Alexander Mackenzie. Its mission is to 'provide research and commentary on its subject matter, to promote informed public debate, and to hold to the proposition that our liberal democratic tradition must be safeguarded and fostered' It is also 'concerned with the social and political stability of Canada, and works to enhance it when it can'. The institute publishes online research papers on a wide variety of political matters, with a focus on terrorism, war, and organised crime. The institute is a non-profit organisationВ it does not accept government funding. In 1990 the current head of the Institute John Thompson - a former member of the Canadian Forces and the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies - joined the Institute. Maurice Tugwell, a former Parachute Regiment officer, British Army veteran of WW-2, Palestine (1947), the Malayian insurgency, Cyprus and Northern Ireland, where in 1971 he headed the British Army's covert black propaganda unit, Information Policy.

The Mackenzie Institute for the Study of Terrorism, Revolution and Propaganda is a think tank in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Luceo non uro means 'I shine, not burn' and is the moto of the Clan Mackenzie The crest of the Mackenzie Institute since at least 2002.

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