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COVID-19

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

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

 

January 22, 2021 at 2:38 pm read more

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

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

 

January 21, 2021 at 6:05 pm read more

Use COVID pause to reconsider drug-price regulation: Nigel Rawson and John Adams in the Financial Post

Canadians need Ottawa to work with the pharmaceutical industry, clinicians and patients to improve access to new medicines and vaccines, write Nigel Rawson...

 

January 19, 2021 at 4:45 pm read more

We Better Hear the Hoi Polloi: Peter Menzies in Covivium

Politicians and bureaucrats caught flouting COVID restrictions should get over their embarrassment and heed the pandemic suffering of working people, writes Peter Menzies...

 

January 12, 2021 at 10:45 pm read more

Ford's declaration of COVID defeat isn't justified by lack of beds: Shawn Whatley in the Toronto Sun

The hospital crisis is not new. COVID adds a new twist. Real solutions require more than lockdowns and emergency measures. Yet here we...

 

January 4, 2021 at 3:39 pm read more

The future of the post-pandemic labour market: Linda Nazareth in the Globe and Mail

There is reason to believe that even when the lights turn back on in the global economy, too much will have changed for...

 

January 4, 2021 at 3:11 pm read more

Get ready for the ‘Roaring-back Twenties’: William Watson in the Financial Post

Some think the 2020s could be a repeat of the rapid technological diffusion and rising living standards of the 'Roaring Twenties', writes William...

 

December 23, 2020 at 8:24 pm read more

Hindsight Pays: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post

Canadians can practice smart risk management by being prepared for bad outcomes, writes Jack Mintz in the Financial Post. Below is an excerpt...

 

December 23, 2020 at 8:18 pm read more

Canada’s Fall Fiscal Update - Costly, Ineffective, and Misguided: Brian Lee Crowley

 Philip Cross’s recent labour market report is a warning about the recklessness of Ottawa putting narrow and contentious political goals above the...

 

December 23, 2020 at 3:54 pm read more

Our Year As Epidemiologists: Peter Menzies in the Financial Post

It took no time at all for millions to pronounce their proficiency in public health emergency management once the pandemic was declared, writes...

 

December 22, 2020 at 6:52 pm read more
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Events

  • 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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