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MLI names COVID-19 Policy-Maker of the Year: Inside Policy, December 2020

OTTAWA, ON (December 21, 2020): In our December issue, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute normally names the person or institution that has had the greatest impact...

 

December 21, 2020 at 1:00 pm read more

Rethinking Lockdowns: A cost benefit analysis by Dr. Ari Joffe

OTTAWA, ON (December 16, 2020): With case tallies rising, much of Canada is or could be facing even tighter COVID-19 restrictions and lockdown...

 

December 18, 2020 at 1:50 pm read more

Webinar Panel Video: When Politics Comes Before Patients - Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing

 The Macdonald-Laurier Institute held the virtual launch for MLI Munk Senior Fellow Shawn Whatley's latest book, "When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why...

 

December 15, 2020 at 5:42 pm read more

Globalization Had A Really Good Weekend: William Watson in the Financial Post

Globalization brought us a world-saving vaccine made in Belgium by Americans and Germans just 36 hours after leaving the factory, writes William Watson...

 

December 15, 2020 at 4:26 pm read more

Failure to Use Rapid Tests in Pandemic Points to Deeper Problems: John Adams and Kashif Pirzada for Inside Policy

We still have time to act; we could approve and quickly license and produce rapid tests in Canada by the tens of millions,...

 

December 15, 2020 at 3:31 pm read more

COVID-19: The Last Hole in the Leaky Long-term Care Boat: Shawn Whatley for Inside Policy

We cannot solve the collapse of long-term care by increasing our commitment to the same “social compact,” writes Shawn Whatley. By Shawn Whatley,...

 

December 9, 2020 at 2:15 pm read more

Canadians are being left in the dark on medically assisted dying: Harvey Schipper and Robyn Boucher in the Hill Times

There are times of crisis where we need to move on best guesses, incomplete and shifting data. The current pandemic is one such....

 

December 4, 2020 at 9:23 pm read more

Seizing pharma profits kills pharma investment: Richard Owens in the Financial Post

It’s time, well past time, for government to get out of the way of innovation and put the health and well-being of Canadians...

 

December 4, 2020 at 3:29 pm read more

Ottawa moves on drug reimportation threat following MLI warning

OTTAWA, ON (December 1, 2020): In a move to protect Canada’s drug supply that has long been recommended by Macdonald-Laurier Institute experts, the...

 

December 2, 2020 at 1:30 am read more

Carrots, Sticks, and Sledge Hammers: William Watson in the Financial Post

Like masks, vaccination creates “positive externalities.” If lots of people resist vaccination, that hurts the rest of us, who might catch the disease...

 

December 1, 2020 at 6:35 pm read more
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  • Connecting After COVID: How Canada and its allies can partner on infrastructure and trade in the Indo-Pacific

    January 27, 2021 at 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST

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  • Local Reaction to an Inauguration like no other: Elliot Tepper on CTV News

    Elliot Tepper, Foreign Affairs, In the Media, Latest News, Multimedia, Recent News

     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

    Columns, COVID-19, Health, In the Media, Latest News, Philip Cross, Recent News

    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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  • The Liberals went hostile against Big Pharma. Now we’re facing vaccine shortages: Tasha Kheiriddin in the National Post

    Columns, COVID-19, Health, In the Media, Latest News, Recent News

    Europeans will wait just one week for their Pfizer shipments to return to normal levels, while Canadians will wait for four weeks, writes...

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  • New legislative proposal to combat global hostage-taking

    Foreign Affairs, Justice, Justice - papers, Latest News, Papers, Press Releases, Recent News, Sarah Teich, Security and defence - papers

    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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  • The yellow badge of Canadian courage: William Watson in the Financial Post

    Columns, Foreign Affairs, In the Media, Latest News, Recent News

    For Canadian politicians no profiles in courage are involved in slamming the departing bully Trump. What’s in play instead are easy political points,...

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Local Reaction to an Inauguration like no other: Elliot Tepper on CTV News

 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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