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Lack of Continental Institutions, Border-Thickening, Threaten Autos and More

Governance failing to keep pace with continental integration May 12, 2011, Ottawa, ON - There is a remarkable contradiction between the reality of...

 

May 12, 2011 at 9:08 am read more

The Canada Gambit - now available for the Kindle

Christopher Sands, a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, recently published a briefing paper...

 

March 22, 2011 at 8:11 am read more

High food prices aren't the problem

On March 16, 2011, the Ottawa citizen published an article by William Watson, Associate Professor of Economics at McGill University and member of...

 

March 16, 2011 at 4:28 pm read more

MLI in Windsor Star: Why the Arctic matters

On March 12th, MLI contributors Dr. Robert W. Murray and Dr. Anita Dey Nuttall of the University of Alberta were in the Windsor...

 

March 15, 2011 at 10:33 am read more

MLI talks provincial responsibility in Edmonton Journal

MLI's Managing Director, Brian Lee Crowley, appears in today's editorial pages of the Edmonton Journal in an op ed that asks the important...

 

March 14, 2011 at 11:54 am read more

Provinces behaving badly

OTTAWA, ON, Mar. 10, 2011/ - Troy Media/ - What should Canada do when provinces behave badly, damage Canada, and then send the...

 

March 10, 2011 at 2:57 pm read more

AbitibiBowater, Democracy and the Public Interest

by Brian Lee Crowley March 10, 2011 – Ottawa – The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) today released a Commentary, AbitibiBowater, Democracy and the Public...

 

March 10, 2011 at 12:34 pm read more

Myths and Superstitions

By Christopher Sands What is more dangerous at this stage of the U.S.-Canada relationship: superstitions, or myths? Both inflict the popular imagination about...

 

March 7, 2011 at 1:12 pm read more

Canada needs its own GAO

Read the entire column here.

 

March 3, 2011 at 9:47 pm read more

Against entrenching property right

By Janet Ajzenstat "Protection of property is a basic right." So says the editorial in the National Post (Friday, February 25, 2011). So...

 

March 1, 2011 at 9:46 pm read more
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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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