Income growth slows following minimum wage hikes: MLI’s Labour Market Report
OTTAWA, ON (October 19, 2018): The Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Labour Market Report for Q3, 2018, has been released, with key indicators suggesting that minimum wage...
LNG deal shows benefits of working with First Nations: Gale and Coates for Inside Policy
Many First Nations communities want the opportunity to get more involved in the natural resource economy, write Sharleen Gale and Ken Coates Sharleen...
Canada needs to adapt to a new approach to US foreign policy: Sean Speer on CPAC
MLI Munk Senior Fellow Sean Speer appeared on CPAC to discuss how Canada and the world will need to adapt to a new...
MLI Senior Fellow Paul Romer co-winner of Nobel Prize in Economics
OTTAWA, ON (October 11, 2018): The Macdonald-Laurier Institute is delighted that MLI Senior Fellow in Urbanization and Economic Development Paul Romer was selected...
Why Ontario was right to cancel the basic income project: Crowley and Speer in Sun papers
The basic income model undervalues the broad-based benefits of paid work, write Brian Lee Crowley and Sean Speer. By Brian Lee Crowley and...
Businesses must take an active role in planning work after automation: Nazareth in the Globe
The labour force should complement rather than battle with machines, writes Linda Nazareth. By Linda Nazareth, October 10, 2018 We need to talk...
The new USMCA deal is great for Canadian innovators: Richard Owens in the Financial Post
Critics of the new IP rules seem to think Canada is a technology backwater incapable of fully securing its rightful place in the...
Creating the conditions for a dynamic, growing, and inclusive economy: Crowley and Speer for Inside Policy
Rather than a “high-tax, high-transfer agenda,” governments should focus instead on expanding work and opportunity for all Canadians, write Brian Lee Crowley and...
Strengthening Canada's intellectual property regime should be first and foremost: Owens and Speer in the Hill Times
We should recognize the failures of Canada's innovation policy industrial complex and strengthen our intellectual property regime, write Richard Owens and Sean Speer ...
Canada's trade negotiatiors took the best deal available: Laura Dawson in the Toronto Star
The newly renegotiated United States-Mexico-Canada agreement (USMCA) will do much to restore investor confidence in the North American economy, writes Laura Dawson. By...
