Keeping people in their homes during and after COVID-19: Jane Londerville for Inside Policy
While many people are housebound, they are also worried about paying mortgages and rent. Recent government moves should help homeowners, but the renters...
Fighting COVID-19 will require unity of purpose and understanding: Richard Shimooka in the National Post
Societal views on the COVID-19 pandemic span a broad spectrum. Our society is without defining experiences, instead becoming increasingly pluralistic and diverse in...
Don’t make all regulators live in Ottawa: Peter Menzies in the Financial Post
There is nothing quite so parochial as a panel of people who all live similar daily realities, including going to all the same...
Broadcasting Review Panel Report: A Stunning Overreach?
The concept of a free, unfettered internet through which Canadians can speak, learn and communicate without permission of the state was blown apart...
Donald J. Savoie joins MLI as our newest distinguished fellow
OTTAWA, ON (February 20, 2020): The Macdonald-Laurier Institute is pleased to welcome our newest Distinguished Fellow, Professor Donald J. Savoie – Canada’s foremost expert on...
We’re moving too fast with too little evidence on Medical Assistance in Dying: MLI commentary by Harvey Schipper
OTTAWA, ON (February 14, 2020): With the federal government set to introduce legislation to expand Medical Assistance in Dying (often referred to as...
Don’t confuse support for the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs with the spirit of Idle No More: Ken Coates in The Globe and Mail
Unlike the Idle No More Protests, these protests around Coastal GasLink threaten to broadly subsume Indigenous rights in a campaign against Canadian oil...
Why the CBC should go ad-free: Peter Menzies in the Toronto Star
Weaning the CBC off advertising revenue and converting it into a true public broadcaster on all its platforms makes a great deal of...
Broadcasting report constitutes a stunning overreach: Peter Menzies in the Globe and Mail
The Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel opted for making the internet and all of its subscribers pay – with their wallets and...
Iran’s Fawning Western Apologists: Kaveh Shahrooz in Quillette
It is true that war brings out the blinkered jingoism of the right. But it also brings out the inverted racism that has...
