Press Release Department: Non-Governmental - Macdonald-Laurier Institute

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute has launched a new foreign disinformation monitoring and debunking platform, DisinfoWatch.org, with a specific focus on COVID-19. The site will track and analyze foreign disinformation narratives, examining how they align and are amplified by domestic platforms, groups and actors. “The project seeks to encourage greater social resilience against harmful information manipulation through education and awareness,” said project lead … Read more

In the new book Gardeners vs Designers, MLI managing director Brian Lee Crowley asks questions like: What makes Canada great? Why is Canada a rare jewel in human experience? Why are we a magnet for people from virtually every other country in the world? Reviews for Dr. Crowley’s book suggest that it could fundamentally reframe the way Canadians … Read more

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute announced that Jamil Jivani has joined MLI as the Institute’s Senior Fellow for Diversity and Empowerment. The full release is available online. Call 613-482-8327 x 105.

In a new MLI publication, Khalistan: A Project of Pakistan, former CBC journalist Terry Milewski researches the Khalistan movement and discovers its reality as a geopolitical project nurtured by Pakistan, threatening the national security of Canadians and Indians. This report warns that a “referendum” scheduled for November 2020 by proponents of an independent Khalistan provides oxygen that fuels extremist ideologies, … Read more

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Leading Economic Indicator (LEI) shows that Canada’s economy continues to slowdown, despite a deceleration in the rate of decline. Dropping 1.4 percent, this latest LEI update reflects data from June and is lower than the 1.9 percent drop measured in May and the 2.3 percent decline in April. “While policy-makers might be happy to see … Read more

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute published a new paper, How far we’ve come: Indigenous engagement with the Canadian energy economy. “The results of the meaningful inclusion of Aboriginal communities in the oil and gas sector are clear,” author and MLI Munk Senior Fellow Ken Coates. “The oil and gas industry now has substantial Indigenous participation,” he said, though he noted many … Read more

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute and the Canadian Security Research Group published a new paper, Not Immune – Exploring liability of authoritarian regimes for the COVID-19 pandemic and its cover-up, in which author Sarah Teich examines the full extent to which authoritarian regimes like China and Iran are legally liable for the COVID-19 disaster, and what can be … Read more

Canada’s economy has continued its downward slide, with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s leading economic indicator dropping by yet another 1.9 per cent. This builds upon a harsh trend of decline that has been tracked in the previous two LEI updates. “While the worst of the impact of the shutdown may be behind us, the latest LEI update … Read more

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute published a new commentary, How pandemic modelling failed policy-makers, and how to do better, which argues the existing models for epidemics seem to have missed the mark in terms of predicting the spread of the virus and informing good public policy. Author Dr. Harvey Schipper, a health policy expert, writes that “the time has come to rethink … Read more

In a new Macdonald-Laurier Institute quarterly economic report, entitled “Fighting COVID-19 is not like fighting a war,” MLI Munk Senior Fellow Philip Cross explains the differences between our current economic situation and that of previous fiscal responses to crises. “In a just mere two months, Canada has experienced a larger drop in GDP than all other post-war … Read more