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It’s time to talk about a COVID-19 exit strategy: Rob Wildeboer and Ray Pennings in The Hill Times

We’ll need to count the lives lost in the short term directly related to the pandemic, of course. But we’ll also need to...

Philip Cross

Canada’s economy is staring down its greatest challenge yet: MLI’s Leading Economic Indicator

OTTAWA, ON (April 3, 2020): Canada’s economic trendline has continued its deceleration according to the latest update of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Leading Economic...

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@djoll @TcameronTodd I think I kinda sorta addressed issue of high false negative rate: Even A Bad Test Can Help Guide the Decision to Isolate: Covid Simulations Part 3 paulromer.net/covid-sim-part… "And when I say bad, I mean bad – an 80% false negative rate, …”

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@edwinkite @Austan_Goolsbee @NoahRFeldman Could we just stipulate that I’m an awful person who wants to kill people to get more GDP and be done with it? If this continues, soon everyone will discover how poorly spoken I am. Me, verbatim from the transcript: "Well yeah, let me, let me just say I, you know, …” 🙂

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It’s time to talk about a COVID-19 exit strategy: Rob Wildeboer and Ray Pennings in The Hill Times

We’ll need to count the lives lost in the short term directly related to the pandemic, of course. But we’ll also need to...

Helping Canada's Indigenous peoples during COVID-19: Ken Coates in the Toronto Sun

Indigenous peoples will be hit disproportionately by the health, economic and social consequences of COVID-19, writes Ken Coates.  By Ken Coates, April 1,...

Economic recovery from COVID-19 is going to take a while — but there is room for hope: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post

What we will need most is for Canadians to believe that a secure future awaits us. That will help most of all in...

More than Propaganda behind China’s Disinformation on COVID-19: Jonathan Berkshire Miller for Inside Policy

Beijing's desperate attempts to change the COVID-19 narrative show how hard the crisis has hit the regime, writes Jonathan Berkshire Miller.  By Jonathan...

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Anastasia Lin on "A New Cold War With China" | Debate Speech before the Oxford Union Society

MLI's Ambassador on Canada-China Policy, Anastasia Lin, delivered a speech before the Oxford Union Society as part of a debate on the following...

How are China and Russia manipulating the global pandemic? European Values Live Panel Debate

OTTAWA, ON (April 1, 2020): On Friday April 3, 2020 at 7:00am ET, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's partners at European Values will be hosting...

Ep. 46 - The Philosophy of a Pandemic with Balkan Devlen and David Manheim

In this latest of episode of Pod Bless Canada, MLI Senior Fellow Balkan Devlen was joined by David Manheim, a post-doc at the...

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Philip Cross

Canada’s economy is staring down its greatest challenge yet: MLI’s Leading Economic Indicator

OTTAWA, ON (April 3, 2020): Canada’s economic trendline has continued its deceleration according to the latest update of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Leading Economic...

Leveraging Canada’s strategic energy resources in the Indo-Pacific: New MLI report

OTTAWA, ON (April 2, 2020): The world is currently in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic while at the same time Russia and...

Facing the Human and Economic Costs of Fighting COVID-19: New MLI Commentary

OTTAWA, ON (April 1, 2020): Canada has entered into uncharted territory as we fight to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and stare down a...

Inside Policy: COVID-19 - How Canada Can Meet This Global Challenge

OTTAWA, ON (March 31, 2020): The COVID-19 outbreak that began in China has since evolved into a global pandemic, resulting in mass quarantines,...

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