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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...

 

March 6, 2015 at 9:06 am read more

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...

 

September 18, 2014 at 8:48 am read more

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 –...

 

May 22, 2014 at 1:13 pm read more
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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,...

 

March 13, 2014 at 1:25 pm read more

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...

 

March 4, 2014 at 9:00 am read more

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 –...

 

February 19, 2014 at 11:39 am read more

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...

 

January 23, 2014 at 12:18 pm read more

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...

 

December 6, 2013 at 9:31 am read more

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...

 

November 28, 2013 at 11:36 am read more

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...

 

February 6, 2013 at 6:00 am read more
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  • Connecting After COVID: How Canada and its allies can partner on infrastructure and trade in the Indo-Pacific

    January 27, 2021 at 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST

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  • Local Reaction to an Inauguration like no other: Elliot Tepper on CTV News

    Elliot Tepper, Foreign Affairs, In the Media, Latest News, Multimedia, Recent News

     MLI research advisory board member Elliot Tepper joined CTV News to discuss the inauguration of Joe Biden. "I think it will be...

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  • Build health care back better: Philip Cross in the Financial Post

    Columns, COVID-19, Health, In the Media, Latest News, Philip Cross, Recent News

    Patient care and not phoney bureaucratic metrics or political grandstanding about equality has to be the focus for everyone, writes Philip Cross in...

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  • The Liberals went hostile against Big Pharma. Now we’re facing vaccine shortages: Tasha Kheiriddin in the National Post

    Columns, COVID-19, Health, In the Media, Latest News, Recent News

    Europeans will wait just one week for their Pfizer shipments to return to normal levels, while Canadians will wait for four weeks, writes...

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  • New legislative proposal to combat global hostage-taking

    Foreign Affairs, Justice, Justice - papers, Latest News, Papers, Press Releases, Recent News, Sarah Teich, Security and defence - papers

    OTTAWA, ON (January 21, 2021): Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor have languished as hostages in China’s brutal prisons for over two years. And...

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  • The yellow badge of Canadian courage: William Watson in the Financial Post

    Columns, Foreign Affairs, In the Media, Latest News, Recent News

    For Canadian politicians no profiles in courage are involved in slamming the departing bully Trump. What’s in play instead are easy political points,...

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Local Reaction to an Inauguration like no other: Elliot Tepper on CTV News

 MLI research advisory board member Elliot Tepper joined CTV News to discuss the inauguration of Joe Biden. "I think it will be...

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