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Columns

Crowley column: Jim Flaherty 1949-2014 - an appreciation of the man

Writing in the Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun and Calgary Herald, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley remembers his friend, Jim Flaherty. The former Finance...

 

April 11, 2014 at 3:50 pm read more

Stanley Hartt in the Post: Canada's real role in the Middle East

In an op-ed in the National Post, Stanley H. Hartt argues that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's close relationship with Israel will give Canada...

 

April 10, 2014 at 10:07 am read more

Cross in the Post: Canadians are not undertaxed

Writing in the National Post, MLI senior fellow Philip Cross takes issue with the popular notion "in some quarters" that Canadians should be...

 

April 9, 2014 at 4:57 pm read more

Leuprecht study on cost of police services profiled in the London Free Press

Writing in the London Free Press, reporter Jennifer O'Brien has profiled a recent MLI paper by Prof. Christian Leuprecht. In the article, titled...

 

April 8, 2014 at 4:53 pm read more

Morrison and Coates in the Post: Greatly expanding university spaces in Ontario is a bad idea

Writing in the National Post, MLI senior fellow Ken Coates and co-author Bill Morrison write that while a major expansion in university spaces...

 

April 7, 2014 at 2:51 pm read more

Leuprecht in the Star: Police are pricing themselves out of business

Writing in the Toronto Star, Christian Leuprecht argues that the high numbers of first responders (primarily police and fire services), appearing on Ontario's...

 

April 7, 2014 at 10:21 am read more

Crowley in the Globe: More money won't save medicare

Writing in the Globe and Mail, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley counters recent "handwringing" about the expiry of the 10-year-old Health Accord....

 

April 4, 2014 at 8:39 am read more

Crowley in Postmedia papers: The West's interests are engaged in Crimea

Writing in the Ottawa Citizen and Calgary Herald, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley argues that after reading much of the commentary about Russia's...

 

March 28, 2014 at 5:57 pm read more

Crowley in the Citizen: The West's interests are engaged in Crimea

Writing in the Ottawa Citizen, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley argues that after reading much of the commentary about Russia's seizing of...

 

March 28, 2014 at 5:57 pm read more

Is free speech in Canadian universities an endangered species? YES

On March 27 at the Canadian War Museum, in the latest instalment of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Great Canadian Debates series, York University professor...

 

March 28, 2014 at 10:35 am read more
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  • Celebrity meddling in Indian farmer protests distracts from the core issues: Vijay Sappani in the Toronto Star

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    MLI Senior Fellow Dr. Shawn Whatley asks, why, over 11 months into the pandemic and amid a predictable second wave, are we faced...

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  • Israel-Iran peace deal: Why it's needed, what it could look like: Mariam Memarsadeghi and Shuvaloy Majumdar in The Jerusalem Post

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