25 YEARS AFTER 9/11

Twenty-five years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, The State of Affairs speaks with Maureen Basnicki, whose husband, Ken, was murdered on the 106th floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower.

Maureen recounts the terror of that day, the devastating impact on her family and her continuing quest for justice. How did she transform unimaginable grief into the Canadian National Day of Service? Why are victims of terrorism still too often abandoned by their governments?

The conversation also confronts CBC’s insulting directive instructing journalists not to call 9/11 a terrorist attack—and its reversal following widespread outrage. Was the reversal enough? Why did Canada’s public broadcaster need a special exception to state an indisputable truth?

Twenty-five years later, the most difficult questions remain: Did we win the war on terror—or has terrorism simply evolved and found new ways to threaten our societies? Was justice ever delivered for Ken and the nearly 3,000 people murdered on 9/11? Has Canada meaningfully supported victims of terrorism, or have families been left to confront grief, trauma, legal battles and financial burdens largely on their own? And what must governments do now to ensure that remembrance is accompanied by accountability, protection and action?.

This is a powerful conversation about remembrance, justice, moral clarity and the obligation to call terrorism by its name.

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