March 24, 2011, Ottawa, ON – The Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s first book, The Canadian Century: Moving out of America’s shadow, has won a highly coveted international think tank prize: the Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award for 2011, awarded by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. Created in honour of Sir Antony Fisher, one of the founders ...
Christopher Sands, a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, recently published a briefing paper on U.S.–Canadian border cooperation in which he explores the implications of the recent bilateral summit between Prime Minister Harper and President Obama. This paper, “The Canada Gambit: Will it Revive North America?”, ...
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) today released a Commentary, Myths and Urban Legends concerning Crime in Canada, written by Ian Lee, PhD, Associate Professor at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business. Responding to the “angry and sustained response from criminologists” to MLI’s February study Why Canadian crime statistics do not add up: not the whole truth ...
Yesterday the Macdonald-Laurier Institute issued an Op Ed by Alex Wilner, a Fellow of MLI, that outlines his views on the best ways of deterring terrorism. The article was picked up by the Epoch Times and is sure to be seen in various newspapers across the country. Click here to read the article in the ...
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 12th, MLI contributors Dr. Robert W. Murray and Dr. Anita Dey Nuttall of the University of Alberta were in the Windsor Star with an Op Ed titled, Why the Arctic matters. First published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute on February 28, 2011, the authors raise substantial questions, as the lead indicates, “Canadians care about ...
MLI’s Managing Director, Brian Lee Crowley, appears in today’s editorial pages of the Edmonton Journal in an op ed that asks the important question: Who pays when provinces misbehave? The Journal article makes timely reference to MLI’s recently-released MLI Commentary, AbitibiBowater, Democracy and the Public Interest. That Commentary succinctly pointed out that mechanisms are needed ...
MLI’s Managing Director, Brian Lee Crowley, will be presenting before the Standing Committee on International Trade on the topic of the Abitibi-Bowater Settlement on Tuesday, March 8, 2011. The hearings arise from a mandate given to the Standing Committee to undertake a study on the $130 million paid by the federal government to Abitibi Bowater ...
By Christopher Sands What is more dangerous at this stage of the U.S.-Canada relationship: superstitions, or myths? Both inflict the popular imagination about this relationship, and more so in Canada than in the United States simply because Americans think about the relationship less often. Superstitions have led us to distrust one another’s statements, actions and ...
Click here to see a really cool infographic that gives an overview of the last 50 years of fiscal policy in Canada, placing the Redemptive Decade in context and showing the challenges still ahead if Canada is to claim its century.
