For economics and decency’s sake, let’s help our Indian students
Op-Ed published in the Globe and Mail, March 16, 2010. Calvin Helin and Dave Snow Despite years of effort and billions of dollars...
Free to Learn press conference (audio – French version)
On March 15, 2010, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute released its first publication, Free to Learn: Giving Aboriginal Youth Control over their Post-Secondary Education. Brian...
Statement of Support from Jacquelyn Thayer Scott
Anyone watching the opening show at the recent Vancouver Olympics had to have been impressed by the skill, endurance and pride of those...
Free to Learn – Statement of Support
Whereas it is well established that Aboriginal people are among Canada's most impoverished and vulnerable populations; Whereas education is a powerful contributor to...
StatsCan and Globe and Mail catch up with Fearful Symmetry
Readers of Fearful Symmetry, published in September, 2009, will recall its claim that "The next 50 years will be an age of labour...
Tough Love from the Godfather of Realism
On the subject of the ISA's 2010 Convention in New Orleans, there's one more panel I want to describe. For students and practitioners...
Peter Nicholson in the Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail today had a Q&A with MLI's Peter Nicholson about budget cost-cutting lessons from 1995. Peter, who is a member...
Dennis Baker’s Argument
Dennis Baker's Not Quite Supreme, the Courts and Coordinate Constitutional Interpretation (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010) is formidably well grounded in British legal history....
On Blogging
In February I attended the International Studies Association's 51st Annual Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana. Of all academic conferences centered on International Relations,...
Swaggering Bureaucrats: the SSHRC and CAUT
Last week I published Rhoda Howard-Hussmann's letter criticizing constraints on aboriginal research set by Canada's granting agencies. (Read the entire letter: February 5,...
