How the West wins: Alberta’s legal pathway to greater power within Canada
September 18, 2025











MLI is heading to Washington… Friends tell friends the truth.
China is interfering in every aspect of Canadian society. This project exposes China’s efforts to undermine our democracy and our institutions and explains what we can do about it.
MLI assesses 13 provincial and territorial systems against five core objectives of the criminal justice system – Public Safety, Support for Victims, Cost and Resources, Fairness and Access to Justice, and Efficiency.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgj_RGqRRiI Canada's dairy industry is one of the most protected sectors of the Canadian economy. But is that protection...
Read moreDetailsSenior Fellow Mark Harding joins Runnymede Radio to discuss his book, Judicializing Everything? The Clash of Constitutionalisms in Canada, New...
Read moreDetailshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXb60ttZhRI Latvia is home to Canada's largest overseas military deployment, with more than 2,000 members of the Canadian Armed Forces...
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Read moreDetails“Rather than waiting for Trump to make demands, governments can present initiatives in defense, trade or technology that advance their own interests while also fitting his political priorities. In effect, they can help construct the victory Trump will inevitably want to announce.
“The modern confrontation with the Islamic Republic of Iran — what Trump describes as an economic D-Day arrives inextricably entangled with an ongoing trade war. This is precisely why Canada must be utterly clear about its motives. The target is a regime that shot its own young
“What should the government do instead? First, continue with investments that increase accountability (including the surety database) and the capacity to monitor risky, repeat offenders who have been granted bail. Second, expand bail bed programs and bail supervision and
Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) mandates in Canadian research are resulting in lower productivity and a harmful focus on scholar-activist research, according to a new, first-of-its-kind study by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
“The equity-excellence trade-off: A study of
“Heather Exner-Pirot, the director of energy, natural resources and environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, argued the surplus reflects a commodity windfall that most of the country has overlooked amid trade-war anxiety. ‘Canada is a commodity-exporting country, and right
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Judicial Foundations Project is planning a one-day symposium on “Judicial Power and the Canadian Constitution,” tentatively scheduled for February 4, 2027, at Hart House, University of Toronto. We hope to bring together scholars, experts, and
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