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Hill Times columns by Brian Lee Crowley, Managing Director of MLI
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National Post/Financial Post Columns by William Watson, MLI Research Advisory Board Member
Recent publications
- Is U.S. housing in a real recovery? Maybe not June 14, 2013
MLI's Linda Nazareth shines a light on what is really going on beneath the headlines of a US housing recovery in today's "Economy in the lab" for the Globe & Mail. Is U.S. housing in a real recovery? Maybe not LINDA NAZARETH, Special to The G...
- From the Financial Post: Junk Science Week: Muzzling government scientists? June 14, 2013
As part of the Financial Post's ongoing series dispelling many myths packaged as science, MLI's Philip Cross comes to the question of "muzzling" government scientists; is their a chill being put on science or is ideological bias behind some of the clai...
- Paul Cellucci: A Forthright Friend of Canada June 10, 2013
Christopher Sands, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and a member of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's research advisory board, pens this personal obituary of the late Paul Cellucci, Canada's former ambassador to the United States. Paul Cellucci...
- MLI in the Vancouver Sun: First Nations support key to future of pipelines May 31, 2013
Following the release of MLI's latest study The Way Out: new thinking about Aboriginal engagement and energy infrastructure to the west coast, part of our ground-breaking series Aboriginal Canada and the Natural Resources Economy, Brian Lee Crowley and...
- MLI in the Globe & Mail: Government tax chasers should worry about profits first May 30, 2013
In today's G&M, MLI's Brian Lee Crowley argues that the idea of simply increasing corporate taxes to increase government revenue, reduce deficits so public spending can flourish is not as straightforward as many believe, and may in fact have the op...
- MLI in the Globe and Mail: Respect is Key to Aboriginal Approval of Northern Gateway Pipeline May 16, 2013
In today’s Globe and Mail, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley emphasizes that respect will be key to Aboriginal approval of pipeline projects. Crowley demonstrates that past history has shown that Aboriginal communities can and will be supportiv...

