May 15, 2013
In today’s National Post, MLI Senior Fellow Ken Coates and Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley discuss Aboriginal communities and the opportunities for partnerships and collaboration in natural resource development. Coates and Crowley not only explore the potential, but also point to the success stories already happening. While Coates and Crowley acknowledge the hard work that ...
May 10, 2013
In the Ottawa Citizen and other Postmedia outlets today, MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley writes about the alarmist media reaction to the launch of MLI’s new project on Aboriginal Canadians and the natural resource economy. Despite the good intentions of the project’s authors, the media coverage too often ended up reinforcing old prejudices the project hopes ...
May 3, 2013
MLI’s ground breaking papers on resetting the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians continues to attract substantial media interest. On May 1, 2013 MLI released two papers; “New Beginnings: How Canada’s Natural Resource Wealth Could Re-shape Relations with Aboriginal People” by Ken Coates and Brian Lee Crowley, and “Canada and the First Nations: Cooperation or Conflict?” by Douglas Bland. Watch ...
May 3, 2013
MLI’s ground breaking papers on resetting the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians continues to attract substantial media interest. On May 1, 2013 MLI released two papers; “New Beginnings: How Canada’s Natural Resource Wealth Could Re-shape Relations with Aboriginal People” by Ken Coates and Brian Lee Crowley, and “Canada and the First Nations: Cooperation or Conflict?” by Douglas Bland. On ...
May 3, 2013
MLI’s ground breaking papers on resetting the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians continues to attract substantial media interest. On May 1, 2013 MLI released two papers; “New Beginnings: How Canada’s Natural Resource Wealth Could Re-shape Relations with Aboriginal People” by Ken Coates and Brian Lee Crowley, and “Canada and the First Nations: Cooperation or Conflict?” by Douglas Bland. Warning ...
May 3, 2013
MLI’s ground breaking papers on resetting the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians continues to attract substantial media interest. On May 1, 2013 MLI released two papers; “New Beginnings: How Canada’s Natural Resource Wealth Could Re-shape Relations with Aboriginal People” by Ken Coates and Brian Lee Crowley, and “Canada and the First Nations: Cooperation or Conflict?” by Douglas Bland. The ...
May 3, 2013
MLI’s ground breaking papers on resetting the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians continues to attract substantial media interest. On May 1, 2013 MLI released two papers; “New Beginnings: How Canada’s Natural Resource Wealth Could Re-shape Relations with Aboriginal People” by Ken Coates and Brian Lee Crowley, and “Canada and the First Nations: Cooperation or Conflict?” by Douglas ...
May 1, 2013
First papers in new series highlight the alternative futures facing Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians in defining new relationships around natural resource development OTTAWA, 1 May, 2013 – Canada’s leading independent, non-partisan think tank, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) announces today the launch of a signature project aimed at showing how natural resource wealth may be used ...
January 24, 2013
January 24, 2013 – MLI Senior Fellow Ken Coates appeared on CTV News to discuss Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike. He also was quoted in a Vancouver Sun article discussing whether Spence hurt or helped the aboriginal cause. An excerpt below: “Chief Spence ended up, I think, detracting attention from Idle No More and changing the ...
January 17, 2013
January 17, 2013 – In today’s Globe and Mail, MLI Senior Fellow Ken Coates writes about Chief Atleo’s leadership. An excerpt below: This is where the opposing perspective comes in, one offering cautious, reasoned, incremental co-operation as the best path forward. This model, embodied in Mr. Atleo and his supporters, sees constitutional recognition and favourable ...