In today’s Report on Business from the Globe and Mail, MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley proposes a new model for infrastructure investments in Canada Ottawa Needs a New Model for Infrastructure Spending By Brian Lee Crowley, Globe & Mail Report on Business, April 4th, 2013 Just over a decade ago, Roy Romanow released his Royal Commission ...
In today’s Globe & Mail senior MLI Fellow Linda Nazareth writes that placing higher-educated staff in entry-level positions may not be such a bad idea. Linda Nazareth Special to The Globe and Mail Here’s a trend, you decide whether it is a good one or a bad one: Employers are increasingly using college and ...
March 7, 2013 – According to MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley, “There is no justification, in logic or in economics, for seasonal EI, and the dogged pursuit of this policy flies in the face of the interests of Canada and people who become trapped in the cycle of working seasonally and then receiving EI ...
March 1, 2013 – The Federal government says it is trying to recover $330 million dollars in incorrect EI payments in the past year. Much of that is suspected fraud. The Opposition calls it attacking those in need. MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley is invited to examine the government’s crackdown on EI fraud on ...
March 1, 2013 – In her Economy Lab blog for The Globe and Mail, MLI Senior Fellow Linda Nazareth writes about Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer’s recent decision to ban working from home. According to Nazareth, “One would think that an effective company would be able to capture both sides of the equation by having ...
February 8, 2013 – MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley writes about the pattern of urban growth in Canada and the future of our cities. Read his latest Postmedia column below, also published in the Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette, Edmonton Journal, Saskatoon’s StarPhoenix, Regina’s Leader-Post, Windsor Star, The Province, and Canada.com. ...
January 10, 2013 – MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley says a different approach to public sector wage negotiations is needed, one where strikes have no place. He explains why in his latest Postmedia column below, which appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette, Edmonton Journal, Saskatoon’s StarPhoenix, Regina’s Leader-Post, Windsor Star, ...
MEDIA RELEASE November 1, 2011, Ottawa, ON – At a time when Muslims constitute one of Canada’s fastest growing immigrant communities and Islam the fastest-growing religion, Canadians will find much to reassure them, but also much to ponder, in a new study of Muslim public opinion in Canada published today by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI). ...
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) today released a Commentary, Revolution on an Empty Stomach, written by John Thompson, the head of the Mackenzie Institute. Every day we are inundated with news of revolution and unrest around the world. From Algeria to Yemen, it’s not necessarily corruption that is causing all the trouble. Throughout history fear of ...
On March 16, 2011, the Ottawa citizen published an article by William Watson, Associate Professor of Economics at McGill University and member of the MLI Research Advisory Board. In his article, Watson states “though many who have taken to the streets in the Middle East in the last two months have expressed their hunger for ...
