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US overcompensating for storming of Capitol with inauguration security: Leuprecht

The huge security rollout in Washington, DC, ahead of the presidential inauguration on January 20 is because there is not a good grasp...

 

January 18, 2021 at 5:29 pm read more

We thought China could become more democratic. Instead, it is becoming totalitarian: Margaret McCuaig-Johnston in the Ottawa Citizen

It was once thought economic reform would bring liberalization and some democratic attributes. But Xi Jinping has doubled down on repression and state...

 

January 18, 2021 at 5:21 pm read more

Canada must work with Biden to defend our democracies against Russia: Marcus Kolga in iPolitics

Canada’s own intelligence agencies have repeatedly warned that the Russian government is actively working to undermine Canadian democracy, writes Marcus Kolga. Below is...

 

January 18, 2021 at 5:13 pm read more

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute launches Canada and the Indo-Pacific Initiative

OTTAWA, ON (January 18, 2020): In an effort to improve Canada’s approach to the opportunities and challenges in the Indo-Pacific region, the Macdonald-Laurier...

 

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Building Resilience Against Information Warfare and Disinformation: Straight Talk with Elisabeth Braw and Marcus Kolga

OTTAWA, ON (January 15, 2021): In the first week of 2021, we witnessed an angry mob descend upon the US Capitol, resulting in...

 

January 15, 2021 at 7:07 pm read more

B.C. shows reducing GHG emissions will be difficult: Philip Cross in the Financial Post

B.C.’s carbon tax had little impact on slowing either economic growth or GHG emissions, writes Philip Cross in the Financial Post. Below is...

 

January 15, 2021 at 3:00 pm read more

Debt dangers: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post

Large primary deficits in the next several years and rising interest rates will destroy the fiscal firepower we would need should another recession...

 

January 14, 2021 at 6:43 pm read more

Webinar Panel Video: A Way Forward, Part II - Defending human rights in China

 The world is waking up to the nature of a crony capitalist enterprise operating as a government in charge of 1.3 billion...

 

January 14, 2021 at 4:19 pm read more

From Xi with love - A New Year greeting to the new POTUS: Samir Saran in the ORF

As a new American President prepares to assume office, China has sent him a greeting card with three messages conveying the terms of...

 

January 13, 2021 at 5:25 pm read more

We Better Hear the Hoi Polloi: Peter Menzies in Covivium

Politicians and bureaucrats caught flouting COVID restrictions should get over their embarrassment and heed the pandemic suffering of working people, writes Peter Menzies...

 

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     MLI research advisory board member Elliot Tepper joined CTV News to discuss the inauguration of Joe Biden. "I think it will be...

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  • Build health care back better: Philip Cross in the Financial Post

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    Patient care and not phoney bureaucratic metrics or political grandstanding about equality has to be the focus for everyone, writes Philip Cross in...

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    OTTAWA, ON (January 21, 2021): Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor have languished as hostages in China’s brutal prisons for over two years. And...

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 MLI research advisory board member Elliot Tepper joined CTV News to discuss the inauguration of Joe Biden. "I think it will be...

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