Why More Funding is Not Necessarily Better for Health and Medical Research: New MLI Commentary
OTTAWA, ON (December 20, 2018): A new Macdonald-Laurier Institute report by MLI Munk Senior Fellow Sean Speer finds that large spikes in public...
National Pharmacare Panel: Sean Speer at the Empire Club
With the federal government toying with a national pharmacare plan, MLI Munk Senior Fellow Sean Speer spoke at a panel hosted by The...
It's time for the government to stop withholding the truth from smokers: Sweanor and Crowley in the National Post
Good public-health policy empowers people to make better, informed personal health decisions, not punish them, write David Sweanor and Brian Lee Crowley. By...
Single-payer pharmacare is a cure worse than what ails the system: Sean Speer in the Hill Times
A federal intrusion that disrupts coverage for three quarters of the population, requires tax hikes and spending cuts, and leads to less drug...
MLI Formally Announces New Munk Senior Fellow: Shawn Whatley
OTTAWA, ON (November 14, 2018): MLI is pleased to welcome our newest Munk Senior Fellow, Dr. Shawn Whatley. Having served as the past President of...
Inside Policy, September 2018: Does Canada need single-payer pharmacare?
OTTAWA, ON (September 24, 2018): With the federal government looking into the possibility of a national pharmacare scheme, MLI has led the debate on...
Let's aim for local over centralized, on health care and more: Sean Speer in the Toronto Sun
The idea that the future will demand greater centralization when technology is enabling unprecedented levels of individual freedom and choice seems patently false,...
Building on what works for pharmacare: Sean Speer for Inside Policy
Instead of a one-size-fits-all government pharmacare model, we should focus on targeted, incremental reforms of the current system, writes Sean Speer. By Sean...
Trump says Canadians are unfairly freeloading off American drugs. He’s right: Richard Owens and Stephen Ezell in the Financial Post
It’s time for Canada to grow up and to purge the defeatist parasitism that sometimes characterizes our policy-making, write Richard Owens and Stephen...
Move towards real harm reduction on tobacco use, Crowley tells National Post Radio
MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley was on National Post Radio to discuss how preaching only abstinence doesn't work when it comes to...
