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<title>Alex Wilner in Chronicle-Herald</title><description><![CDATA[The Chronicle-Herald in Halifax has become the latest Canadian paper to  publish MLI Fellow Alex Wilner's recent Op-Ed, Turning al-Qaida into  heretical thugs. Alex and MLI have now appeared from Vancouver to  Winnipeg to Halifax, and Canadians from coast to coast have been able to  read this timely and thoughtful article.
Read the Chronicle-Herald Op-Ed here&hellip;]]></description><pubDate>2010-09-01</pubDate><link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/main/news.php?news_id=211</link><category>RSS Entries</category>
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<title>Alex Wilner on Gormley Live</title><description><![CDATA[MLI&nbsp;Fellow Alex Wilner appeared on yesterday's Gormley Live on NewsTalk 980 CJME.
Listen here...]]></description><pubDate>2010-08-31</pubDate><link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/main/news.php?news_id=209</link><category>RSS Entries</category>
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<title>MLI in SunMedia on the Tea Party</title><description><![CDATA[Brian Lilley takes a look at the recent Glen Beck/Tea Party rally in  Washington and&nbsp; the potential for such a grassroots movement developing  in Canada in today&rsquo;s SunMedia. As part of his analysis, Lilley turned to  Canada&rsquo;s think tank world and, specifically, MLI&rsquo;s Managing Director,  Brian Lee Crowley, for comment.

Dr. Brian Lee Crowley, managing director of the  McDonald-Laurier Institute, an Ottawa-based think-tank, also gives the  movement little chance of success.
Crowley says the impact of the Reform Party in Canada in the 1990s is  still being felt in Canadian politics. Due to Reform, he says, Canadians  don&rsquo;t easily accept higher taxes.
&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;ve certainly changed the political culture quite a bit,&rdquo;  said Crowley. &ldquo;Even the NDP campaigns now on no-tax increases or even  some tax reduction. That&rsquo;s a huge sea change from where we were several  decades ago.&rdquo;

Read the full column here&hellip;]]></description><pubDate>2010-08-31</pubDate><link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/main/news.php?news_id=207</link><category>RSS Entries</category>
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<title>Wilner and MLI land in the heartland</title><description><![CDATA[MLI Fellow Alex Wilner landed an Op-Ed&nbsp; in Canada's heartland in today's Winnipeg Free Press. He writes in the piece on delegitimizing terrorism:
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The core of my message is straightforward -- Islamist radicalization is the linchpin of homegrown terrorism in the West. We can fight the results through military and police methods. But in this area, an ounce of intellectual prevention is worth a ton of military cure. And since the core of radicalization is the internalization of a set of beliefs, worldviews and assumptions that legitimize violence in the name of a given cause, prevention must accomplish the opposite from within the same intellectual framework of the intended audience.
Read the entire Op-Ed here...
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<title>MLI Fellow Alex Wilner on Vancouver Sun editorial pages</title><description><![CDATA[Proving yet again that the Macdonald-Laurier Institute is on top of issues as they happen, Dr. Alex Wilner, an MLI Fellow, appears on the Vancouver Sun editorial pages today with a timely Op-Ed titled: Why we need to fight terrorism intellectually. He writes:

The rising threat of homegrown terrorism to Canada  and its G8 and NATO allies was dramatically underlined by Wednesday&rsquo;s  terror-related arrests in Ottawa. But in addition to arresting those who  actually plot such mayhem, we need a strategy for fighting the ideas  that lead to it, delegitimizing terrorism among vulnerable groups in the  population before it becomes a matter for law enforcement. 

Read the full Op-Ed here&hellip;]]></description><pubDate>2010-08-27</pubDate><link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/main/news.php?news_id=205</link><category>RSS Entries</category>
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<title>MLI Sun Sea paper makes air waves</title><description><![CDATA[Last week the Macdonald-Laurier Institute published a Commentary, The &lsquo;Sun Sea&rsquo; Tamil Mass Refugee Claim: An Opportunity For Needed Reforms, by Scott Newark.
Since the publication, Newark has been a busy individual. He has been  on (and you can listen by clicking on the links) with Roy Green on  CKOM,&nbsp; on the &ldquo;John Gormley Live Show&rdquo; on NewsTalk 650 in Saskatoon, the Madley in the Morning Show on CFRA580 in Ottawa  and he&rsquo;s also scheduled to be on the Tommy Schnurmacher Show on CJAD800  in Montreal on Wednesday. All of which just proves that if you put  issues and potential solutions onto the table people are willing to  discuss them.]]></description><pubDate>2010-08-24</pubDate><link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/main/news.php?news_id=204</link><category>RSS Entries</category>
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<title>MLI on Globe editorial page</title><description><![CDATA[Macdonald-Laurier Institute contributor Scott Newark is front and  centre in today&rsquo;s Globe and Mail on this week&rsquo;s big issue, the arrival  of the Sun Sea and almost 500 Tamil refugee claimants in British  Columbia. In an Op Ed piece titled Tighter immigration laws will sink &lsquo;refugee&rsquo; ships,  the former Alberta Crown attorney and executive director of the  Canadian Police Association presents timely suggestions in how to stop  the growing problem of people-smuggling and improve our refugee  determination process. He begins:

&ldquo;The ship carrying 492 Tamils from Sri   Lanka sailed  through a huge hole in our refugee system that must be plugged before a  fleet follows it in. Canadians are compassionate, but they also expect  their laws to be sensible and effective and, if necessary, they expect  changes to those laws to prevent this sort of abuse.
There&rsquo;s no question that the voyage of the Sun  Sea was yet  another organized effort to subvert our immigration and refugee system.  As was intended from the outset, the Sri Lankan citizens aboard this  Thai-flagged ship are now claiming refugee status in Canada.&rdquo;

Read the full Op Ed here&hellip;]]></description><pubDate>2010-08-19</pubDate><link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/main/news.php?news_id=202</link><category>RSS Entries</category>
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<title>Free to Learn highlighted on CBC</title><description><![CDATA[Calvin Helin, co-author with Dave Snow of MLI study Free to Learn,  was on CBC radio&rsquo;s ReVision Quest recently. He joined host Darrell  Dennis in taking a hard look at aboriginal education in Canada in a show  that aired on August 11th and again on the 14th.  The program highlighted the key recommendation in Free to Learn  calling for the creation of Aboriginal Post-Secondary Savings Accounts  to be opened at birth for every registered aboriginal youth in the  country. You can hear the audio recording here&hellip; (the Helin segment starts at about the 18:00 minute mark)&nbsp;]]></description><pubDate>2010-08-16</pubDate><link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/main/news.php?news_id=201</link><category>RSS Entries</category>
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<title>Doing property properly</title><description><![CDATA[An outstanding piece on the future of aboriginals in Canada, in Saturday&rsquo;s Ottawa Citizen,   takes a sympathetic look at the introduction of private property  rights  by the Nisga&rsquo;a and includes a highly pertinent quotation from  MLI  Advisory Board member Calvin Helin (an author, entrepreneur,  lawyer,  activist and advocate for self-reliance and member of the  Tsimshian  Nation in northwestern BC) on the subject of holding land as a  ward of  the federal government: &ldquo;what&rsquo;s the point of having assets,&rdquo;  Helin asks,  &ldquo;if they&rsquo;re of no value to you?&rdquo; Click here to read the piece. ]]></description><pubDate>2010-08-16</pubDate><link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/main/news.php?news_id=200</link><category>RSS Entries</category>
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<title>Canadian Century co-author in the Wall Street Journal</title><description><![CDATA[Jason Clemens, MLI Fellow and co-author along with Niels Veldhuis and Brian Lee Crowley of MLI&rsquo;s best-selling The Canadian Century, has an article in today&rsquo;s Wall Street Journal. In the piece titled Canada, Land of Smaller Government,  Clemens makes the case for Canadian fiscal actions as a guide for  Americans. From the outset, he eloquently echoes the arguments put forth  in Canadian Century.

When Americans look to Canada, they generally think  of an ally, though one dominated by socialist economic policies. But the  Canada of the 1970s and early 1980s&mdash;the era of left-wing Prime Minister  Pierre Trudeau&mdash;no longer exists. America&rsquo;s northern neighbor has  transformed itself economically over the last 20 years.
The Canadian reforms began in 1988 with a U.S. free trade pact  that would lead to the North American Free Trade Agreement. But change  really began to take off in 1993. A socialist-leaning government in  Saskatchewan started by reducing spending and moving towards a balanced  budget. This was followed by historic reforms by the Conservatives in  Alberta, who relied on spending reductions to balance their budget  quickly.
In 1995, the federal government, led by the Liberal Party, passed  the most important budget in three generations. Federal spending was  reduced almost 10% over two years and federal employment was slashed  14%. By 1998, the federal government was in surplus and reducing the  nearly $650 billion national debt. Provincial governments similarly  focused on eliminating deficits by paring spending and reducing debt,  and then they started to offer tax relief.

Read the complete article here&hellip;]]></description><pubDate>2010-08-09</pubDate><link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/main/news.php?news_id=199</link><category>RSS Entries</category>
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<title>MLI influence grows... Thanks Minister!</title><description><![CDATA[MLI&rsquo;s influence in Ottawa is evident today. Industry Minister Tony Clement has adopted an MLI invention in describing his census mess as &ldquo;a K1A issue&rdquo;. See it in a front page, above-the-fold article in today&rsquo;s Globe and Mail. 

Thanks, Minister. 
We appreciate the nod.]]></description><pubDate>2010-08-06</pubDate><link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/main/news.php?news_id=198</link><category>RSS Entries</category>
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<title>Fearful Symmetry acclaimed at U of Windsor</title><description><![CDATA[Matt Bufton, who is the current Executive Director of the Institute for Liberal Studies, wrote a review of Brian Lee Crowley&rsquo;s Fearful Symmetry last year. The article appeared in The Lance at the University of Windsor. In his look at the best-seller Bufton concluded:

&ldquo;This book is an important contribution to the public  policy debate in Canada. Crowley mixes economic analysis with big ideas  and enjoyable prose in a style that is all too rare.&rdquo;
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<title>Another feather in MLI’s cap as Canada Watch highlights Canadian Century</title><description><![CDATA[The July-August issue of Canada Watch,  a monthly digest from the Consulate General of Canada (New York),  highlights the recent appearance of MLI&rsquo;s first book, Canadian Century,  in Foreign Policy magazine. 

&ldquo;In a glowing June 25 Foreign Policy magazine article,  entitled &ldquo;The Canadian Century,&rdquo; its authors (Brian Lee Crowley, Jason  Clemens, and Niels Veldhuis) present the piece as a record of &ldquo;what the  United   States could learn from its northern neighbour.&rdquo;

Read more from Canada Watch&hellip;]]></description><pubDate>2010-08-03</pubDate><link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/main/news.php?news_id=196</link><category>RSS Entries</category>
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<title>Alex Wilner: War is tough. Big surprise.</title><description><![CDATA[MLI Fellow Alex Wilner's blog post about the recent WikiLeaks  publication of secret US military reports was picked up by the National  Post's Full Comment blog.]]></description><pubDate>2010-07-28</pubDate><link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/main/news.php?news_id=195</link><category>RSS Entries</category>
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<title>Windsor Star editorial champions Citizen of One</title><description><![CDATA[MLI authors Brian Lee Crowley, Robert Knox and John Robson continue   to make waves with their call for an Economic Charter of Rights for   Canadians. The Windsor Star is the latest Canadian newspaper   to agree with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute&rsquo;s call for federal  action  on domestic trade barriers. In an editorial today, they comment  on  MLI&rsquo;s recently-released Citizen of One, Citizen of the Whole study: 
So far, only three provinces -- Alberta, British   Columbia and  Saskatchewan -- have moved to sign agreements to encourage  more trade,  investment and mobility.
As a result, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute -- a non-partisan   think-tank -- is calling on Ottawa to use its constitutional authority   to get rid of the barriers through an Economic Charter of Rights and   then set up a commission that would deal with non-compliance.
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As the Macdonald-Laurier Institute points out, Ottawa has the moral   authority and power to get rid of interprovincial trade barriers. What   it really needs is the courage to dismantle them.
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