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Interfaith 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...
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In this episode, Peter Copeland, Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Program at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI), sits down with...
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In this episode, Casey Babb sits down with Ahmed Alkhatib, a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, to discuss the...
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In this episode, Peter Copeland, Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Program at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, sits with Ross McKitrick,...
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It should be self-evident that sex matters in contexts where safety, dignity, and vulnerability are at stake.
Males commit most sexual offences, and females comprise nearly all the victims. That fact alone ought to justify single-sex spaces.
But in Canada, evidence still…
Should we expect women to bear the risks of male intrusion into their spaces?
@_CryMiaRiver writes that although @UKSupremeCourt has drawn a clear line in defence of women, it remains to be seen whether Canada’s judiciary has the courage to do the same:
Canada's courts must protect women's sex-based rights, like the U.K.: Mia Hughes in the National...
This article originally appeared in the National Post. By Mia Hughes, April 24, 2025 Within a week of the U.K. Supreme Court issuing a
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There’s lots of talk lately about interprovincial trade barriers, and how to mutually tear them down.
But there’s another way to get the ball rolling.
A study by @trevortombe found unilaterally dropping barriers unlocks a big share of potential gains: https://tinyurl.com/2p9r8fvw
A new @MLInstitute report reveals 458 arsons in just a few years—more than double the historical average, with 96% remaining unsolved.
“This isn’t just a public safety issue—it’s a #reconciliation issue,” says author @E_R_Sepulveda.
Scorched earth: A quantitative analysis of arson against Canadian religious institutions and its...
Sepulveda's report demonstrates that the increase in arson is likely a response to the announcements of potential un...
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Any serious effort to grow the Canadian Armed Forces' capacity requires multi-partisan commitment to a stable policy direction that won’t shift drastically with changes in government, writes Andrew Erskine for Inside Policy.
Beyond campaigns and promises — Canada needs cross-party vision to oversee defence planning and...
By Andrew Erskine, April 23, 2025 As Canadians prepare to go to the polls in the wake of United States Preside...
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"Canadian legacy newspapers have warned that their decline poses 'an existential threat to the very foundation of our democracy,'" notes Dave Snow.
"While decline has not been arrested, the proliferation of #news subsidies has eroded their independence."
Government subsidies for Canada’s media were supposed to be temporary, but they keep on growing—and...
Just how free and trusted can Canada’s media be if they are dependent on government subsidies?
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