Did you know that this year marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of George Grant’s immensely influential book, Lament for a Nation? I certainly didn’t! Imagine my delight, therefore, when…
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National Post Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson and I chat on National Post TV about why Prime Minister Mark Carney hasn’t many cards to play in trade talks and so…
The Epoch Times’ Jan Jekielek, (although he is Canadian!) hosts a terrific series of hour long interviews called American Thought Leaders. On 10 May 2025, my interview with Jan aired….
Former long-time President of the University of Saskatchewan, my good friend Peter MacKinnon, has been busy defending the traditional idea of the university as the home of disinterested inquiry and…
In March 2025 I gave a talk to a large business audience in St. John’s NL about the meaning of Donald Trump and how Canada should respond. In April MLI…
What would we do without Donald Trump? Certainly there wouldn’t be so many media interviews! This time Brian Crombie had me on his radio show on Sauga 960 AM in…
On 31 March 2025, eve of Donald Trump’s so-called Liberation Day tariff announcements, I was honoured to be asked by the Hub to write a piece on my advice to…
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21 June 2024: In this video commentary for MLI, I lay out the case why Canada’s lackadaisical approach to defence and national security has attratced the ire of both Democrates…
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute has launched a new series of podcasts entitled Pod Bless Canada. Each episode of roughly 30 minutes showcases a chat between an MLI representative and someone knowledgeable…
At first blush you might think that the minimum wage and carbon taxes have nothing to do with one another. You’d be quite wrong however. That’s because the logic of…