March 15, 2013 – There is something stirring in America according to MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley. In his latest Postmedia column, he writes, ”Americans are hungry for a new political leadership that will break the impasse in Washington.” His latest column appears in the Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette, Edmonton Journal, Saskatoon’s StarPhoenix, Regina’s ...
November 17, 2012 – With more than two billion more people expected to be living on Earth by 2050, more food will be eaten in the next 50 years than in the whole rest of human history. What is the solution to feeding those hungry mouths? According to MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley, the solution to ...
October 22, 2012 - According to MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley, “For the government to change the museum’s name and provide millions of dollars to assist with the shift to a more history-focused mandate is not undue political interference but an overdue decision to help bind Canadians together more firmly by celebrating rather than ignoring our shared ...
July 9, 2012 - MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley discusses Quebec politics in his latest column for The Hill Times and Calgary Herald. Crowley says, “Our great failing vis-à-vis Quebec has not been our unwillingness to change to accommodate them. It has been our unwillingness to demand their respect for our differences, and for the country.” He ...
June 11, 2012 – MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley’s latest Hill Times column on Senate reform has appeared across the country! It has been reprinted in the Calgary Herald and New Brunswick’s Telegraph-Journal and Postmedia journalist Peter O’Neil quoted Crowley in his latest column on the same topic in the Edmonton Journal, Montreal Gazette and Vancouver Sun. The full Hill ...
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 utopian and unworkable schemes to ‘stop’ it or that assume that human nature ...
April 16, 2012 – In his new column for The Hill Times, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley explains why there is no realistic alternative to the F35s. According to Crowley, “The government should have the courage to say so and defend the price tag that goes with it.” The full column is copied below. There ...
March 19, 2012 – In his column for The Hill Times today, MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley writes about fishery reform on the East Coast and the use of Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) to guarantee a fisherman’s share of the catch. The full column is copied below. Most successful fishing nations give fishers a right to a share of the catch ...
February 20, 2012 – In today’s Hill Times column, MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley discusses trade with China. Crowley says, “There is a great deal of pressure within Canada not to say anything that might ‘offend’ the Chinese…because the subtext is that they will punish us economically if we dare speak our minds.” What should we do? He ...
February 6, 2012 – Jack Granatstein, a member of MLI’s Research Advisory Board, writes a monthly column for the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute. This month, he writes about not needing the UN’s permission “to determine if Ottawa can act with its friends against a threat to peace.” The full column below: We don’t ...
