MLI Straight Talk: Ken Coates dispels the myths about Aboriginal Canadians
MLI Senior Fellow fielded questions from the public on Reddit earlier this month OTTAWA, March 6, 2015 – The latest instalment in the Macdonald-Laurier...
MLI Straight Talk: ER doctor reveals abuses allowed by medicare
Dr. Brett Belchetz says patients are visiting his emergency room dozens of times a year to get a diagnosis they want or acquire...
MLI Straight Talk with Linda Nazareth: Canada needs temporary foreign workers
MLI Senior Fellow Linda Nazareth argues that complaints about abuses to the temporary foreign worker program have overshadowed the benefits for business –...
MLI Straight Talk with Jeanne Flemming: Following the money to the bad guys
Former FINTRAC director explains the dangers of organized crime, and how we can better use financial transactions data to stop it OTTAWA, MARCH 13,...
MLI Straight Talk on unemployment insurance reform with Sven Otto Littorin (Part 2 of 2)
Former Swedish Employment Minister talks about how he achieved serious unemployment insurance reform, which holds lessons for Canada OTTAWA, March 4 – When...
MLI Straight Talk on health care with Sven Otto Littorin
Former Swedish cabinet minister speaks about how his country approached health reform, which holds lessons for Canadian medicare OTTAWA, February 19, 2014 –...
Straight Talk on medicare with Jeffrey Simpson
Globe and Mail national columnist and author speaks with MLI about what's ailing Canada's health care system OTTAWA, January 23, 2014 – In the...
Straight Talk: James Baker and Derek Burney on free trade
The latest instalment in the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Q&A series features the key negotiators of the Canada-U.S. FTA on the 25th anniversary of the...
New MLI Straight Talk: health care reform with Janice MacKinnon
Latest instalment of Straight Talk series discusses why Canadians are resistant to needed reforms to medicare. OTTAWA, November 28, 2013 – In the...
Iran’s nuclear bark bigger than its bite, but West must still act, experts say
Highlights: Despite bombast, regime has been risk averse. Iran acts through proxies such as Hezbollah. Arab Spring setback for Iran. Regime change likely...
