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- Update from our latest History Wars debate: Does power corrupt Canadian Prime Ministers? May 15, 2012Macdonald-Laurier Institute
On May 10, 2012, we held the final History Wars debate of the season. In this debate, former deputy prime minister Sheila Copps and award-winning journalist Andrew Coyne debated the resolution: Power corrupts Canadian Prime Ministers. In case you misse...
- Commentary: Resource development need not harm environment May 15, 2012Macdonald-Laurier Institute
Natural Resources minister makes the case for a balanced approach that protects the environment and fuels growth MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, May 15, 2012 - Canada can achieve a regulatory system for resource development that protects Canadians and the ...
- MLI's Brian Lee Crowley discusses climate policy in The Hill Times, Vancouver Sun & Calgary Herald May 14, 2012Macdonald-Laurier Institute
May 14, 2012 - In his latest column for The Hill Times today, MLI's Brian Lee Crowley argues that we need to think differently about climate change. He says, "The climate policy we need...would accept the risk of manmade climate change, but reject u...
- MLI's Jason Clemens takes part in Ottawa Citizen live chat on health care May 10, 2012Macdonald-Laurier Institute
May 10, 2012 - How do we make medical services more effective when governments are cutting spending? MLI's Jason Clemens takes on this issue in a live chat organized and hosted by the Ottawa Citizen today. Clemens is joined by Former Deputy Minister of...
- MLI study on the opportunities in the Canadian agriculture and agri-food sector highlighted at Senate Committee May 9, 2012Macdonald-Laurier Institute
On May 8, 2012, MLI authors Kate Stiefelmeyer and Larry Martin appeared before the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry to discuss their MLI study, Canadian Agriculture and Food: A Growing Hunger for Change, released in October 2011. The Com...
- National Post: We’re all Hayekians now May 8, 2012Macdonald-Laurier Institute
May 8, 2012 - In a new column for the National Post, MLI's Brian Lee Crowley commemorates Nobel Prize-winning economist and philosopher F.A. Hayek 20 years after his death. The column is based on The Man Who Changed Everyone’s Life: The Ubiquitous Id...
- Commentary - Celebrating the man who changed everyone’s life: F.A. Hayek May 8, 2012Macdonald-Laurier Institute
Twenty years after his death, Nobel Laureate F.A. Hayek’s ideas still reshaping the world MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, May 8, 2012 – Anyone looking for evidence of Victor Hugo’s proposition that ideas are the most powerful force in the world need ...
- iPolitics: A consequential U.S. election? May 5, 2012Macdonald-Laurier Institute
May 5, 2012 - In a new column for iPolitics, MLI's Jason Clemens discusses why the U.S. presidential election might actually matter. The column was also reprinted in the Ottawa Citizen and Vancouver Sun. The full column is below: A consequent...
