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Feb 21 2017
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The Confederation Dinner: Highlights

By Nick Humphrys MLI, Video

Leaders from across the country gathered in Ottawa on Feb. 21, 2017 to celebrate 150 years since Confederation with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. The Confederation Dinner, MLI’s signature event for Canada’s…

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Jan 24 2017
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Will robots steal the last job?

By Brian Lee Crowley Globe and Mail

In the era of Donald Trump it has become commonplace to bemoan the disappearance of work and the fear seems widespread that robotics will replace virtually every kind of work….

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Jan 24 2017
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Robbie Burns night — readings and concert!

By Brian Lee Crowley Events

Robbie Burns night 2017 is, of course, tomorrow, January 25th. To celebrate the Scottish Bard and his immortal work some friends and I are organising a little concert of Scottish-themed…

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Jan 24 2017
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Three myths I’d like to see the back of in 2017

By Brian Lee Crowley Globe and Mail

My editors at the Report on Business asked me to do a “what to expect in 2017” sort of column for my last one of 2016. Rather than dreary economic…

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Jan 24 2017
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Should Ottawa tax health benefits? Depends how they do it

By Brian Lee Crowley National Post

Canada has too many tax credits that light up the tax code like a Christmas tree. Lots of them should be scrapped and the Liberals, to their credit(!), have said…

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Jan 24 2017
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Why the prime minister still doesn’t understand Ottawa’s role on pipelines

By Brian Lee Crowley Globe and Mail

When in early december he announced his decision on several pipelines, approving two and vetoing another, Prime Minister Trudeau clearly thought he was showing how these decisions ought to be…

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Jan 24 2017
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Rising Aboriginal expectations, disappointing results = recipe for conflict

By Brian Lee Crowley Blog

Pledges by the Liberals during the last federal election sent expectations about progress on Indigenous affairs soaring. But, as my colleague Ken Coates and I argued for iPolitics, Ottawa’s failure…

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Jan 24 2017
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Redistribution vs an agenda of opportunity

By Brian Lee Crowley Sun Media

Writing in the Sun newspaper chain on November 27th, 2016, my colleague Sean Speer and I tackle on of the hottest issues of the day: redistribution vs opportunity and which…

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Jan 24 2017
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The Indo-Pacific Rim is where the action is for Canada

By Brian Lee Crowley Globe and Mail

Talk to the Australians and they will tell you that the “Pacific Rim” is old hat. The action now is in the Indo-Pacific, in other words the littoral nations on…

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Jan 06 2017
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Canada not benefiting from philanthropy as it should

By Brian Lee Crowley Inside Policy Magazine

To mark National Philanthropy Day Sean Seer and I wrote a piece for Inside Policy pointing out the social and economic benefits that Canadian society derives from philanthropic giving. But…

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