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Public Policy

Time for a "China Reset" Before It's Too Late: Clive Hamilton in the National Post

After years of being groomed by Beijing, Canada’s business and political elites, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, still believe that the best policy...

 

June 19, 2020 at 9:50 pm read more

AI and contact tracing: How to protect privacy while fighting the COVID-19 pandemic: MLI Report by Barry Sookman

OTTAWA, ON (April 22, 2020): While Canadians share the common goal of containing the COVID-19 pandemic, we will eventually have to consider resuming...

 

April 24, 2020 at 12:00 pm read more

Ep. 47 - Canada's Brain Waste Problem: How Canada has Overlooked Immigrant Doctors with Ai-Men Lau and Robert Falconer

In this latest of episode of Pod Bless Canada, MLI Communciations Officer Ai-Men Lau was joined by Robert Falconer, a research associate at...

 

April 15, 2020 at 10:07 pm read more

MLI's Owens documents Ottawa's innovation hits and misses for international report

MLI Munk Senior Fellow Richard Owens recently contributed, alongside co-authors Daniel Schwanen (C.D. Howe Institute) and Stephen Ezell (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation),...

 

June 15, 2019 at 12:23 pm read more

Paying able-bodied people not to work isn't an act of compassion — it's an act of surrender: Crowley and Speer in the Financial Post

Getting real people into real jobs is the measure on which the Ford government should be judged, write Brian Lee Crowley and Sean...

 

August 10, 2018 at 2:06 pm read more

Canada's leaky health-care system: Sean Speer on The Exchange

Canada's health-care system is "a mile deep and an inch wide", argues Sean Speer on The Exchange (cue to 38:00).  The system was not...

 

July 20, 2016 at 11:08 am read more

MLI’s Crowley in the Globe and Mail on Canada’s not-so-endangered middle class

In his latest column for the Globe and Mail, MLI's Brian Lee Crowley explains why, contrary to a recent report, Canada's middle class...

 

July 11, 2013 at 4:20 pm read more

MLI's Brian Crowley discusses senate reform in the Ottawa Citizen

June 4, 2011 - In his regular column for The Ottawa Citizen, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley discusses the Senate reform proposed by...

 

June 6, 2011 at 9:16 pm read more

Better institutions are needed for a full auto sector recovery

On May 24, 2011, Moncton Times & Transcript published MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley and Stephen Blank's op-ed, "Better institutions are needed for...

 

May 27, 2011 at 11:06 am read more

Border rules hindering auto sector recovery

May 17, 2011 - In today's Montreal Gazette, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley and Stephen Blank discuss the barriers that are impeding...

 

May 17, 2011 at 1:16 pm read more
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  • Neither CRTC nor CBC following the law by allowing dismantling Radio Canada International: Peter Menzies in the Toronto Star

    Columns, In the Media, Latest News, Peter Menzies, Recent News

    If neither the government nor the CRTC is willing to enforce the laws that govern the CBC, it will continue to self-define as...

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  • Webinar Panel Video: Standing Guard - What have we learned from the enhanced Forward Presence on NATO's frontier?

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     In 2021, NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) is heading into its fourth year. Canada’s commitment as the Framework Nation for the eFP...

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  • Parliament follows MLI’s lead by declaring China’s actions against Uyghurs a genocide

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    OTTAWA, ON (February 23, 2021): Yesterday, Parliament voted unanimously to declare that China’s actions against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang constitute a genocide. This...

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  • Eeek Squeak You Can't Speak: Peter Menzies on social media control

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     "We are heading in a very troubling direction." MLI Senior Fellow and acclaimed journalist Peter Menzies joins the Word Work podcast to...

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  • Frustrating funding process, unpredictable playing field stymie broadband expansion: Peter Menzies in the Hill Times

    Columns, Economic policy, In the Media, Latest News, Peter Menzies, Recent News

    Misplaced policy priorities, skepticism, and sclerotic regulation are suppressing competition and innovation in the effort to expand affordable high-speed Internet access in Canada,...

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Webinar Panel Video: Standing Guard - What have we learned from the enhanced Forward Presence on NATO's frontier?

 In 2021, NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) is heading into its fourth year. Canada’s commitment as the Framework Nation for the eFP...

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