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Pod Bless Canada Ep. 9 - Trans Mountain Pipeline and Canada's Constitution with Crowley and Newman

In this episode of Pod Bless Canada, Brian Lee Crowley is joined by Dwight Newman, MLI Munk Senior Fellow for Constitutional Law, to...

Breaking the long arm of Kremlin corruption and abuse: Gary Caroline and Marcus Kolga in The Star

Canada needs to support honest Russians who risk their freedom and their lives in pursuit of justice, transparency and the rule of law,...

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Dragon at the Door

MLI's Dragon at the Door series is a collection of critical articles by credible experts exploring the distressing realities of 21st century China.

The Case for Fiscal Reform: Lessons from the Anglosphere

In this MLI series, scholars and leading politicians from across the Anglosphere describe their respective experiences with fiscal reform.

Breaking the long arm of Kremlin corruption and abuse: Gary Caroline and Marcus Kolga in The Star

Canada needs to support honest Russians who risk their freedom and their lives in pursuit of justice, transparency and the rule of law,...

Blocking Aecon deal the right decision: MLI experts

OTTAWA, ON (May 24, 2018): The federal government has just announced it is blocking the Chinese state-owned enterprise CCCI’s takeover bid of Aecon...

Ontario, First Nations take giant step toward reconciliation with revenue-sharing deal: Coates and Crozier in The Globe

Resource revenue sharing supports Indigenous communities and backs their moves toward greater Indigenous self-determination, write Ken Coates and Stephen Crozier. By Ken Coates...

Putin’s bareknuckled propaganda comes to the Canadian War Museum: Marcus Kolga in The Toronto Sun

The Kremlin’s support for the revanchist glorification of Soviet symbols aims to subvert Canada’s European alliances and turn Canadians against each other, writes...

Pod Bless Canada Ep. 9 - Trans Mountain Pipeline and Canada's Constitution with Crowley and Newman

In this episode of Pod Bless Canada, Brian Lee Crowley is joined by Dwight Newman, MLI Munk Senior Fellow for Constitutional Law, to...

Crowley speaks to Radio-Canada about Ottawa’s strategy on Trans Mountain

MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley speaks to Anne-Marie Dussault on Radio-Canada about Ottawa’s strategy on Trans Mountain.

Ottawa’s approach to Trans Mountain lacks details, Speer tells CBC’s On the Money

Munk Senior Fellow Sean Speer joins the Big Picture Panel on CBC’s On the Money to discuss the political and financial costs of...

Blocking Aecon deal the right decision: MLI experts

OTTAWA, ON (May 24, 2018): The federal government has just announced it is blocking the Chinese state-owned enterprise CCCI’s takeover bid of Aecon...

Takeover of Aecon is integral to China’s national strategy: New MLI commentary by Duanjie Chen

OTTAWA, ON (May 22, 2018): Canada's government is close to making a decision that will have an enormous lasting impact on our country....

Higher taxes require better contraband enforcement to reduce smoking: MLI Commentary by Christian Leuprecht

OTTAWA, ON (May 17, 2018): The World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) recommends “price and tax measures to reduce the...

The unemployment rate is low. So what?: MLI report by Philip Cross

OTTAWA, ON (May 10, 2018): When the latest Canadian job numbers come out tomorrow everyone will focus on the unemployment rate, but should they? According to...