MLI’s Linda Nazareth in The Globe and Mail: For clues to Canada’s housing...
January 16, 2013 – In her Economy Lab blog for The Globe and Mail, MLI Senior Fellow Linda Nazareth writes that if home prices in Canada keep rising and rising, the economy to look at may be Australia...
View ArticleMLI’s Cross in the Financial Post: Clean house at the Parliamentary Budget...
January 31, 2013 – In a new op-ed for the Financial Post, MLI’s Philip Cross says the relationship between the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) and the government no longer serves the purpose either...
View ArticleMLI’s Crowley in Postmedia: Canada needs to close its free-trade deals
February 15, 2013 – MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley says it is time for Canada to close its free-trade deals in his latest column for Postmedia. The column is published in the Ottawa Citizen,...
View ArticleMLI’s Philip Cross in the Financial Post: The High Wage Fairy
February 21, 2013 – In a Financial Post op-ed today, MLI’s Research Co-ordinator Philip Cross says there are several things wrong with the simplistic analysis that increasing workers’ pay boosts...
View ArticleMLI’s Brian Lee Crowley on CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning to discuss austerity...
February 26, 2013 – MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley appeared on CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning show opposite Sid Ryan, president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, to discuss whether budget cuts...
View ArticleFinancial Post & Postmedia newspapers: Canadian economy growing at a steady...
February 26, 2013 – The Financial Post’s Gordon Isfeld writes about MLI’s latest composite leading index today and the article is republished across the country in Postmedia newspapers. The MLI index...
View ArticleMLI’s Crowley in Postmedia: Even Keynes opposed permanent stimulus
March 2, 2013 – In his latest column for Postmedia, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley says even Keynes opposed permanent stimulus. He writes, ”There is a time when government steps back, hands...
View ArticleExclusive article from the upcoming issue of Inside Policy: Restoring...
March 4, 2013 – National Newswatch has published an exclusive article from the upcoming February-March 2013 issue of Inside Policy today. The article, “Restoring integrity to the budget process,” is by...
View ArticleInside Policy’s Don Drummond in The Globe and Mail: Forget the budget...
March 13, 2013 – In today’s Globe and Mail, economist Don Drummond calls upon the government to seize the opportunity to turn budget-making into a more coherent planning process. A longer version of...
View ArticleRestoring equity and Promoting wise stewardship in Canada’s equalization program
Revenue from non-renewable natural resources should be exempted from equalization formula says new MLI study. MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, April 4, 2013 – Canada’s equalization program suffers from widespread...
View ArticleMLI in the Financial Post: Is Poloz Carney’s legacy?
In today’s Financial Post, MLI’s Philip Cross discusses how politics may have played a part in naming Steve Poloz as the new Governor of the Bank of Canada, but maybe not for the reasons many pundits...
View ArticleBusting the myths surrounding development of Canada’s natural resources
The resource sector doesn’t deserve the bad rap from some economists who have long disparaged it as an economic curse that stifles overall growth. On the contrary, growth in resources and other sectors...
View ArticleVIDEO: Ottawa subsidizing risky provincial borrowing
New MLI video shows that Euro-style debt crises can happen here if status quo continues MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, May 23, 2013 – Canadian taxpayers should not get too complacent about the country’s...
View ArticleMLI in the Financial Post: Copy-cat innovation
In today’s Financial Post, MLI’s Philip Cross lays out some of the fundamental misunderstandings people have when they think of “innovation” and how these misunderstandings lead people to reach...
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Former BoC Governor Mark Carney proudly displays framed MLI infographic
Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, who will be leaving at the end of the month to become the Governor of the Bank of England, is a big fan of MLI’s award-winning book, The Canadian Century. As a...
View ArticleMLI in the Globe & Mail: Government tax chasers should worry about profits first
In today’s G&M, MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley argues that the idea of simply increasing corporate taxes to increase government revenue, reduce deficits so public spending can flourish is not as...
View ArticleGreat Canadian Debate Commentary: “Wealth in Canada has too much power”
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our latest Great Canadian Debate, “Resolved: Wealth in Canada has too much power”. Below, are the two commentary positions by our debaters, Armine Yalnizyan,...
View ArticleMLI in the Globe and Mail: Should the rich pay more? Not necessarily
Hot on the heels of ongoing debate about taxing the rich, MLI’s Philip Cross argues that taxing the rich more may not be the panacea to government revenue woes it is made out to be. Is income...
View ArticleMLI in La Presse: Les ressources naturelles ont mauvaise mine
MLI’s recent paper “Busting the myths surrounding development of Canada’s natural resources” by Philip Cross is featured extensively in this analysis piece by La Presse. The paper continues to receive...
View ArticleMLI work cited in Hillwatch paper “Willful Blindness in Federal Budget-Making”
Tuesday June 4, 2013 – Ottawa government relations firm Hillwatch today released their paper “Willful Blindness in the Federal Budget-Making Process” which identifies several key blindspots that exist...
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