Canada should stop stealing from drug companies: Richard C. Owens in the Financial Post
This article originally appeared in the Financial Post. By Richard C. Owens, July 20, 2022 In the celebrated TV drama, The ...
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Reality check: Dispelling the myths around the benefits of drug price controls
By Richard C. Owens with Rebecca Rosenberg and Haya Sardar June 28, 2022 PDF of paper Executive Summary Canada’s Patented ...
The kindest cut: Excising the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board from the Canadian body politic
By Richard C. Owens, Rebecca Rosenberg, and Haya Sardar June 2, 2022 PDF of paper Executive Summary Canada’s drug price ...
Quebec gets the constitution right (on drug price control): Richard Owens in the Financial Post
While unconstitutional institutions and policies may be accommodated by the provinces to some degree, pushing them too far will end ...
Removing intellectual property rights for Covid vaccines will do more harm than good, says international coalition
OTTAWA, ON (May 24, 2021): The Macdonald-Laurier Institute joins an international coalition of 27 think tanks to call on governments ...
On vaccine patents, the logic of bandits: Richard C. Owens in the Financial Post
IP isn’t the problem, it’s the solution; stealing stuff isn’t the solution, it’s the problem, writes Richard C. Owens in ...
The U.S. outsources control of drug prices to Canada: weird! Richard Owens in the Financial Post
Having us do the dirty work of price controls on the U.S.'s behalf is bizarre and pathetic — and dangerous, ...
Seizing pharma profits kills pharma investment: Richard Owens in the Financial Post
It’s time, well past time, for government to get out of the way of innovation and put the health and ...
COVID’s two new solitudes: Richard Owens in the Financial Post
By creating lockdowns and limiting economic and personal freedoms the public sector optimizes its own affairs at our expense, writes ...
GTIPA Virtual Summit 2020
On October 29, the Global Trade and Innovation Policy Alliance will be holding a summit bringing together alliance members and ...
The Throne Speech we’d like to see: 13 big ideas for Parliament’s next session
With a historic Throne Speech coming on Sept. 23, the government has many challenges to face with the current pandemic ...
Drug prices can go too low: Richard C. Owens in the Financial Post
By determinedly reducing revenues Canada not only ensures the unavailability of existing medications, it sees to it that far fewer ...
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There was no emergency, but don’t expect the Commission to throw the government under the trucks: Bruce Pardy for Inside Policy
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Breaking the silence: Female athletes speak about safe and fair sport in Canada
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Mining on the moon is no longer a loony idea, and Canada can capitalize on it: Heather Exner-Pirot
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Allowing male-bodied athletes to compete in women’s sport rejected by female athletes by wide margin
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What is this government doing to protect Canada’s sovereignty against China? Charles Burton in the Globe and Mail
