As First Nations increasingly adopt custom governance structures outside the Indian Act, they will have to clarify who speaks for the community when...
In this episode of Pod Bless Canada, Ken Coates is joined by MLI Senior Fellow Dwight Newman to discuss the current state of...
It appears the only way a major pipeline project in Canada can get built is if the federal government buys the project as it...
Macdonald-Laurier Institute author Paul Cassidy will discuss the nefarious offshoots of the social licence phenomenon at a talk in Halifax on March 30....
The recent disruption of hearings into the Energy East pipeline in Montreal are an affront to the rule of law and the will of...
While it has become popular with politicians, the concept of requiring 'social licence' for resource projects is entirely at odds with the rule...
The concept of social licence for natural resource projects has legitimate and illegitimate forms. Brian Lee Crowley appeared on the CBC Radio One...
How do you get approval from local communities for natural resource development without subverting the rule of law? That was a question at...
Macdonald-Laurier Institute Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley spoke to the CBC in Vancouver this week in support of some talks on the issue...
Macdonald-Laurier Institute Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley will be speaking at the University of British Columbia on Jan. 15 on the growing issue...