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- Is U.S. housing in a real recovery? Maybe not June 14, 2013Sean
MLI's Linda Nazareth shines a light on what is really going on beneath the headlines of a US housing recovery in today's "Economy in the lab" for the Globe & Mail. Is U.S. housing in a real recovery? Maybe not LINDA NAZARETH, Special to The G...
- From the Financial Post: Junk Science Week: Muzzling government scientists? June 14, 2013Sean
As part of the Financial Post's ongoing series dispelling many myths packaged as science, MLI's Philip Cross comes to the question of "muzzling" government scientists; is their a chill being put on science or is ideological bias behind some of the clai...
- Earth faces many risks. Should climate change be our greatest priority? June 13, 2013Sean
MLI's Philip Cross writes in today's Globe & Mail that climate change is just one of a list of problems facing our planet; so why are we putting all our eggs in the global warming "basket"? Earth faces many risks. Should climate change be our gr...
- MLI Paper Calls for Stronger Intellectual Property Rules For Pharmaceuticals in Exchange for Research and Investment Commitments by Companies June 13, 2013Sean
MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA June 13, 2013 - International trade negotiations with the European Union and the Trans-Pacific Partnership are creating pressures to reform Canada’s intellectual property (IP) regime for pharmaceuticals. As a condition of acce...
- MLI in the Globe & Mail: My homage to the (undeservedly) hated car June 13, 2013Sean
In his latest column for the Globe & Mail, MLI's Brian Lee Crowley calls down the worst the car-haters can muster in defence of the automobile and what it has meant in terms of raising the standards of living for millions of people. My homage to...
- Paul Cellucci: A Forthright Friend of Canada June 10, 2013Sean
Christopher Sands, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and a member of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's research advisory board, pens this personal obituary of the late Paul Cellucci, Canada's former ambassador to the United States. Paul Cellucci...
- MLI on Sun News: Ken Coates speaks about the fix for Northern Gateway June 10, 2013Sean
Ken Coates, Senior Fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute speaks with Lorne Gunter about how natural resource wealth will shape relationships with between Aboriginal communities and the federal government. Click here to see the interview. More on th...
- MLI in the Ottawa Citizen: "The problem with ‘tax the rich’ " June 7, 2013Sean
In today's Ottawa Citizen, MLI's Brian Lee makes the case that in a world of finite resources, simply taxing the rich may cause more harm than good for the economy. The problem with ‘tax the rich’ BY BRIAN LEE CROWLEY, OTTAWA CITIZEN JUNE 7, ...

