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...
GTIPA Virtual Summit 2020
On October 29, the Global Trade and Innovation Policy Alliance will be holding a summit bringing together alliance members and experts from around...
The Throne Speech we’d like to see: 13 big ideas for Parliament’s next session
With a historic Throne Speech coming on Sept. 23, the government has many challenges to face with the current pandemic and economic crisis,...
Drug prices can go too low: Richard C. Owens in the Financial Post
By determinedly reducing revenues Canada not only ensures the unavailability of existing medications, it sees to it that far fewer new ones will...
MLI experts available to comment on delay to federal drug price reduction scheme
OTTAWA, ON (June 2, 2020): Changes to the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) have been delayed until January 2021 and a new...
Our drug discovery system seems broken: Richard Owens in the Financial Post
Now more than ever, we should want drug companies to be able to charge high prices, writes Richard Owens in the Financial Post. Below...
The court backs creators, not universities: Richard Owens in the Financial Post
Universities have relied on 'fair dealing' provisions to photocopy mountains of material and distribute them to students, writes Richard Owens. By Richard Owens,...
Google should start playing nice with the news media: Richard Owens in The National Post
The internet is far better off with authoritative, factual sources of reference, such as are provided by professional, fact-checking newspapers. Google’s news service...
Econ 101: Drug price controls shrink supply: Richard Owens in the Financial Post
Increased drug revenues enable increased research and development expenditures, which in turn result in better health and longer lives, writes Richard Owens. By...
A better innovation policy: Protect ideas, don’t subsidize businesses: Richard Owens and Brett Byers in the Financial Post
Current innovation policies are a mess of disparate and expensive programs that dole out vast amounts of money wastefully and inefficiently, write Richard Owens...
