The Supreme Court vs. Parliament emerged as the top theme of MLI Munk Senior Fellow Benjamin Perrin's third annual review of the Supreme Court of Canada's major decisions.
The brutal war in Aleppo progresses unabated but Canada continues to abdicate its leadership responsibility as carnage overtakes Syria,
writes Shuvaloy Majumdar.
Philip Cross calls out stimulus-addicted governments in new paper
Governments addicted to stimulus have us headed for the next financial crisis while relinquishing the levers they will need to pull us back from the brink this time.
Macdonald-Laurier Institute Munk Senior Fellow Philip Cross, in
a new paper, warns that governments are risking disaster by continuing with stimulus efforts that began during the recession of 2008.
Ottawa made some important decisions about the future of Canada last month with announcements about three major pipelines, and MLI was there to provide crucial thought leadership.
Brian Lee Crowley urged Ottawa to be less a decider and more of an impartial rule-maker on pipelines in
a Globe and Mail op-ed and in interviews with
the Financial Post and
CTV.
Everything from postal delivery to national defence has been poked, prodded and examined by panels, boards and commissions of all sizes in 2016.
That's why, with no one individual dominating the policy scene in the past year, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute has named "the consultation process" as its policy-maker of the year in the December 2016 edition of Inside Policy.
MLI and CDAI map out a future for Canada's special operations forces
The CDA Institute and MLI have partnered to issue a new study assessing the current role and possible future direction of Canada's special operations forces.
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Christian Leuprecht to speak on defence policy at Mackenzie Institute event
MLI Munk Senior Fellow Christian Leuprecht will tackle the future of Canadian defence policy at
an event in Ottawa on Jan. 31, 2017.
The Mackenzie Institute is bringing together Leuprecht and other influential defence thought leaders for "a topical discussion on geopolitical and global security issues that will influence future policy-making".
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