Northern corridors: Hype or hope? Heather Exner-Pirot
April 14, 2025
MLI is heading to Washington… Friends tell friends the truth.
China is interfering in every aspect of Canadian society. This project exposes China’s efforts to undermine our democracy and our institutions and explains what we can do about it.
How Canada can achieve its potential as an environmentally responsible energy superpower.
If the criminal justice system in Canada isn’t broken, it is bending under enormous pressure.
On April 2, 2025, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute hosted an inspiring and timely armchair discussion on interfaith dialogue, peace, and...
Read moreDetailsIn this episode, Peter Copeland, Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Program at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI), sits down with...
Read moreDetailsIn this episode, Casey Babb sits down with Ahmed Alkhatib, a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, to discuss the...
Read moreDetailsIn this episode, Peter Copeland, Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Program at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, sits with Ross McKitrick,...
Read moreDetailsPeter Hefele of the @MartensCentre explains what fuels contemporary Euro-skepticism, and the importance of a cohesive European world vision -
Watch the full discussion w/ @BalkanDevlen 👇
https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/can-europe-guarantee-its-own-security-balkan-devlen-and-peter-hefele-for-inside-policy-talks/
"#Trump & @elonmusk have become America’s trolls-in-chief—as exemplified by the @WhiteHouse's posting of an AI-generated cartoon depicting an immigrant crying in handcuffs. This type of 'shitposting' is the furthest thing from presidential." - @epkaufm
If ‘Woke’ puritanism is the disease, Trump’s amoral populism isn’t the cure: Eric Kaufmann in...
Valid critiques of progressive moralism have devolved into an embrace of anything-goes strongman rule.
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"#Indigenous Peoples do not need or want activists speaking for us," argues Stephen Buffalo.
"We speak for ourselves. This means we must be at the Team #Canada table."
There is no Team Canada strategy without Indigenous people: Stephen Buffalo in The Hill Times |...
This article originally appeared in The Hill Times. By Stephen Buffalo, April 15, 2025 President Donald Trump’s Am...
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"Universities have made their choices to practice #affirmativeaction that intrudes widely upon individual rights," writes Peter MacKinnon.
"It is the Canadian people, including governments, university alumni & supporters, who must rein them in."
Rein in universities' race-based hiring: Peter MacKinnon in the National Post | Macdonald-Laurier...
If they can discriminate widely or without limit, the principle of non-discrimination is severely diminished.
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A winning political platform?
1. Adopt a time-limited vision for growth in patient care
2. Adjust CURRENT funding -- No patient self pay!
3. Refuse detailed plans -- Let innovators create.
@MLInstitute
"Each province could have their own trucking regulations — maximum weight allowed... or different dimensions...
A report from @MLInstitute estimated these regulations add up to 8.3% in freight costs, which works out to a $500 million annual loss."
How to help homegrown companies succeed in Canada
As tariffs and other economic tensions undermine our trade relationship with the United States, Canadian ventures look...
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