Making Aboriginal voices heard in Environmental Assessment: MLI paper by Bram Noble
MLI paper explores how Environmental Assessment can become an integral part of reconciliation with Aboriginal Canadians OTTAWA, July 5, 2016 ...
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Senators hear from Ken Coates on pipelines, natural resources and Aboriginal Canada
The Senate committee on Transport and Communications is drawing on thought leadership from Macdonald-Laurier Institute Senior Fellow Ken Coates in ...
Preventing new transparency laws from burning Indigenous peoples and resource developers: New MLI paper by Dwight Newman and Kaitlyn S. Harvey
Time is running short for adapting to new natural resource transparency laws before payments to Aboriginal governments are subject to ...
Embrace of UNDRIP can bring Aboriginal Canada and Ottawa closer together: Ken Coates and Blaine Favel for iPolitics
Ottawa’s endorsement of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) has finally opened the door to ...
Using UNDRIP to help Aboriginal Canada will require action on key priorities: New MLI paper by Blaine Favel and Ken Coates
Blaine Favel and Ken Coates, in a newly-released Macdonald-Laurier Institute paper, examine next steps for Ottawa as it follows through ...
MLI’s Coates and Favel call for a made-in-Canada approach to “free, prior and informed consent”
Authors of a new paper recommend collaboration with Indigenous peoples to clarify the standards for Indigenous acceptance of resource projects ...
“Something extraordinary is happening” with Aboriginal Canada and natural resources, Sean Speer tells Senators
Macdonald-Laurier Institute Senior Fellow Sean Speer took to Parliament Hill this week to slay some of the myths about Aboriginal ...
Less government, not more, the path to Aboriginal prosperity: Sean Speer and Ken Coates in Sun papers
Ottawa’s commitment to reconciliation with Aboriginal Canadians won’t just be measured in the dollars and cents doled out in this ...
Building a new Aboriginal opportunities agenda: Commentary by Ken Coates and Sean Speer
MLI Senior Fellows say the solution to fostering progress for Aboriginal Canada lies in less government – not more OTTAWA, ...
Sean Speer and Ken Coates available to comment on Aboriginal affairs ahead of premiers’ meetings
This week’s meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and First Nations groups holds great potential for advancing the cause of ...
Aboriginal Canada could use some Compassionate Conservatism: Brian Lee Crowley in the Citizen
The out-of-office Conservatives need a policy to show they are a party that cares about the least well off, as ...
The resource economy and the front lines of reconciliation: Ken Coates in Inside Policy
With the impressive impact of Justice Murray Sinclair’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Canadians want a new and more positive course ...
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Unfortunately for Canadian consumers and creators, the Online Streaming Act is performing exactly as predicted: Peter Menzies in the Hub
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Mexican cartels are a direct threat to Canada’s public safety, and the future of North American trade: Gary J. Hale for Inside Policy
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Canadians are very unhappy with the federal public service—and for good reason: Tim Sargent in The Hub
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An economist on Ottawa’s GST holiday. Spoiler alert – Santa Claus is not real: Tim Sargent in the Globe and Mail
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Canada is an energy superpower. It’s time to remind America and act like it: Heather Exner-Pirot in The Hub
