Why we need a flexible, prudent approach to vaccine mandates: Shawn Whatley in the Hub
To date, most discussion on vaccine mandates reflects a principled approach. People must choose a side, for or against, writes Shawn Whatley in...
How to get Canada off the health-care teeter-totter: Shawn Whatley for The Hub
Medicare does not struggle for lack of ideas or funding. It struggles from funding thrown at the same tired ideas rooted in similar...
Pandemic mistrust may eventually improve health care: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post
If there is one prediction to make from the COVID-19 pandemic, health care will be a major issue for Canadians for years to...
Canada’s pandemic-related job losses and debt accumulation the worst among peers, in exchange we got only middling results combatting COVID: MLI’s COVID Misery Index
OTTAWA, ON (September 17, 2021): As Canada votes Monday in an election that will be pivotal for a return to health and prosperity...
MLI COVID Misery Index Update - Election Edition Analysis
View the full, updated COVID Misery Index (CMI) here. Download the data for the September 17 update here. For more information, including a full methodology...
Webinar Panel Video: The quest to vaccinate the world - Considering the global impact of waiving patent rights for COVID vaccines
The rapid development of new COVID-19 vaccines and treatments over the past year is a triumph of innovation. Billions of vaccine doses...
Ep. 72 – Understanding Vaccine Passports with Aaron Wudrick, Dr. Martha Fulford, and Dr. Shawn Whatley
Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Pod Bless Canada · Ep. 72 – Understanding Vaccine Passports with Aaron Wudrick, Dr Martha Fulford, and Dr Shawn Whatley The...
Patients’ access to innovative medicines should be an election issue: Rawson and Vanstone in the Hamilton Spectator
Canadians have heard little from any political party in the election campaign about how they will improve access to innovative medicines that can provide...
False Premise - Federal Regulation of Drug Prices as a Step to National Pharmacare: Rawson and Adams in the National Newswatch
Advocates for national pharmacare who insist on control of drug prices, not by negotiation but by federal regulation, may have built hopes on...
A Mandate for Recovery: Policy Briefs from MLI Experts
The following are a series of policy briefs and short form election-related commentaries by experts at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute as part of our...