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How provincial trade barriers rip off Canadians: Peter Copeland & Ryan Manucha for Inside Policy Talks
In this episode, Peter Copeland, Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Program at the Macdonald Laurier Institute, sits down...
Read moreDetailsInterfaith Dialogue, the Road to Peace, and Israel’s Future: Loay Alshareef in conversation with Casey Babb
On April 2, 2025, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute hosted an inspiring and timely armchair discussion on interfaith dialogue, peace, and...
Read moreDetailsCan the CBC survive without government subsidies? Peter Copeland and Peter Menzies for Inside Policy Talks
In this episode, Peter Copeland, Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Program at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI), sits down with...
Read moreDetailsBetween Shadow and Sunrise – Palestine’s Unwritten Future: Casey Babb and Ahmed Alkhatib for the Promised Land Podcast
In this episode, Casey Babb sits down with Ahmed Alkhatib, a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, to discuss the...
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"Until now, Canadians’ awareness of these [church burning] incidents was limited to individual news reports & databases... That changed on April 24 with the release of Scorched Earth... a new report from the @MLInstitute."
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"#China’s accelerated economic & military expansion has established it as a near-peer competitor to American primacy in the #IndoPacific, creating a bipolar power dynamic reminiscent of previous great power confrontations."- @nagystephen1, William Winberg
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Some political words come with modifiers, e.g., democratic socialism or Marxist socialism
Liberalism doesn't have modifiers.
You have to ask what people mean when they use the word.
"The tariff war already makes it unlikely that Mr. Trump will be able to duplicate the economic success of his first term," notes Philip Cross.
"Even if tariffs are repealed... investor confidence will not easily be restored."
"This is part of [Trump's] negotiating tactic. He knows Canada's vulnerability to the United States, and he knows that for Canada, there is no realistic alternative. And he's basically signaling to Canadians he knows this, and he's going to have high expectations of any…
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