The West in Confederation: What’s Behind Western Restlessness?
In the past few years, the combination of Albertan assertiveness, First Nations’ engagement, Saskatchewan’s social policy activism, and Manitoba’s ...
Tag: Blaine Favel
Lifting up the lives of Indigenous peoples in need: Blaine Favel for Inside Policy
Let us take a moment in today to pray for those lost souls who never came home to their moms ...
Charting a Path to Economic Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples: New MLI Commentary
OTTAWA, ON (April 25, 2019) If Canadian policy-makers are serious about reconciliation, what should they be doing about it? To ...
Photos and Video: MLI’s 2019 Dinner – Beyond Reconciliation
On February 20th, 2019, MLI hosted its annual dinner at the Canadian War Museum. This year's theme was "Beyond Reconciliation: ...
Ken Coates and Blaine Favel UNDRIP paper profiled in John Ivison National Post column
An influential Macdonald-Laurier Institute paper on how to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in ...
MLI papers on FPIC and UNDRIP make waves
Macdonald-Laurier Institute authors Ken Coates and Blaine Favel have established their thought leadership on Aboriginal international with a pair of ...
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 ...
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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
