John Robson’s weekly Ottawa Citizen column takes dead aim at “elites” he sees going down in flames in electoral bonfires all around him. His lead makes it to our blog…and also earned him a spot on National Newswatch this morning. “Within a week the American political landscape will be altered almost as dramatically as Toronto’s ...
William Watson, writes on tax policy in today’s Financial Post. The MLI Research Advisory Board member, commenting on a recent paper by Harvard’s Martin Feldstein, advises governments to stop digging into debt by trimming tax expenditures. Just in case the message is too subtle, he also cites one of Preston Manning’s more memorable lines: Feldstein’s ...
MLI Research Advisory Board member, William Watson, writes on parliamentary process in today’s Ottawa Citizen. Specifically, he tackles the thorny matters of time wasted in preparation for, and declining decorum during, the daily circus we call Question Period. He has a prescription for the din and theatrics that infect the House of Commons for that ...
MLI Fellow Alex Wilner’s op ed in Globe and Mail…Getting Ahead of Prison Radicalization.
In his weekly column in today’s Ottawa Citizen, MLI’s John Robson takes a look at, in no particular order, the demise of the British Navy, politicians who don’t say what they mean or mean what they say, profligate government spending, a UK cut to the number of F-35 fighter jet purchases they will make, misguided ...
MLI’s Managing Editor, John Robson, was in Washington this week at the same time as Brian Crowley. They had some overlap in activities, but, John also found time to check out some of the other parts of the US capital. His verdict? “Washington is a city that works.” John writes about his experiences in his ...
MLI Research Advisory Board member, William Watson, writes on healthcare systems in today’s Financial Post. In another debunking of the notion that “big is better”, he has a common sense prescription for what ails the delivery of health services here in Canada and abroad. Big systems like that have to be run from the ground ...
MLI Research Advisory Board Member William Watson highlights the weak points of a recent OECD report on obesity in today’s Financial Post. Commenting on “Fit not fat: Obesity and the economics of prevention”, Watson writes: The study comes with a heaping side order of data, all of it focused on what the report repeatedly calls ...
