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Tag Archives: COVID

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

Dialling down COVID guilt: William Watson in the Financial Post

Things happen. Empathy, sympathy and appreciation serve better now than guilt, writes William Watson in the Financial Post. Below is an excerpt from...

 

December 17, 2020 at 2:05 pm read more

Managing COVID beyond lockdowns and vaccine research: O'Reilly, Bourkas, and Stewart in iPolitics

There is a clear need for a new communications and public-policy approach — one based on the principles of managing COVID as a...

 

November 26, 2020 at 8:27 pm read more

A tax on remote workers would do more harm than good: Linda Nazareth in the Globe and Mail

Putting a tax on workers outside of the office will inevitably mean fewer will be able to do so, at a cost to...

 

November 19, 2020 at 6:18 pm read more

The common – and elusive – humanity of wearing a mask: Peter Menzies in Troy Media

It’s a principle and an understanding that life is not just about individual, but also collective, rights and the balance between them, writes...

 

November 6, 2020 at 4:57 pm read more

COVID's two new solitudes: Richard Owens in the Financial Post

By creating lockdowns and limiting economic and personal freedoms the public sector optimizes its own affairs at our expense, writes Richard Owens in...

 

November 6, 2020 at 3:43 pm read more

Mask Laws: Necessary or Nonsense? Shawn Whatley in The Epoch Times

We can beat both pandemics, respiratory and mental. But we must first acknowledge they both exist, writes Shawn Whatley in the Epoch Times. ...

 

November 6, 2020 at 9:30 am read more

Webinar Panel Video: Strong and Free - Re-imagining foreign policy for a new world

 The stability and the predictability of the old rules-based international order is gone. COVID-19 pandemic lays bare the fragility of the old...

 

October 16, 2020 at 6:58 pm read more

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

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     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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