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The Court Challenges Program – How your tax dollars fuel social justice activism through the courts: Dave Snow and Ryan Alford
February 13, 2025 This report uses data from the Court Challenges Program’s annual reports to show that the program’s “human rights” panel has an overwhelming progressive bias, with 96 per cent of the CCP’s “example cases” funding progressive activism. The federal government is spending several million dollars a year to do indirectly what it is […]
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Securing the nuclear future – How enhancing Canadian enrichment capacity can help break Russia’s grip on the global uranium supply chain: Juzel Lloyd – MLI
February 6, 2025 Canada’s enrichment potential is not only a crucial asset for its allies but also a strategic move for ensuring the security and resilience of its own nuclear power fleet. The global enrichment supply chain is undergoing a reckoning that will ripple through the nuclear industry for decades to come. Russia’s invasion of […]
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Aboriginal title has become a constitutional threat in Canada – Fraser Institute
February 05, 2025 In November, a court released seven companies from an Aboriginal land claim in New Brunswick. Wolastoqey First Nations had filed a legal action seeking a declaration of Aboriginal title over more than half the province. The seven companies, named as defendants, own most of the land subject to the claim. A judge […]
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Large numbers and the destruction of policy debate in Canada: Ken Coates in National Newswatch – MLI
February 5, 2025 Over the last decade, wild increases in government spending have effectively immunized Canadians to the significance of large numbers. The process started years ago, in an all-party and all-government frenzy of public spending. It expanded rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic, with governments rushing money out the door in what we now know […]
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As the U.S. abandons DEI, Canada doubles down: Dave Snow in The Hub – MLI
February 4, 2025 To fix higher education we must depoliticize grant funding and remove DEI considerations. While the U.S. government, corporations, and universities begin to abandon Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies, Canada has instead doubled down, continuing to make them an integral part of both government and academia. This trend has become increasingly apparent in federal granting agencies, the main source of Canada’s research […]
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New models of shared rule can secure better infrastructure in Indigenous communities – Policy Options
February 3, 2025 It’s time for novel and innovative ways to address the infrastructural security gap in Canada. Many First Nations communities lack infrastructural security – a term for whether governments and communities have the necessary assets to promote and maintain the economic and social well-being of their members. This problem on reserves is a […]
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TMU doubles down on race-based admissions: Peter MacKinnon in the National Post – MLI
January 30, 2025 Ontario government should impose appropriate consequences upon the school, including withdrawal of funding. Toronto Metropolitan University remains committed to medical school admissions through “equity pathways” (admissions streams for Black, Indigenous and other equity deserving groups) though it has developed a vocabulary that obscures their discriminatory impact: “excellence, inclusion and innovation;” students “from […]
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Canada’s environmental racism law needs to be stronger – CCPA
January 29, 2025 Bill C-226 needs to be about more than data collection—it needs to be about affirming Indigenous sovereignty For decades, the residents of Grassy Narrows First Nation have struggled with severe health problems that experts attribute to mercury poisoning—a legacy of unchecked industrial pollution in their community’s waterways. The poisoning did not happen […]
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Eco-colonialism and Indigenous involvement in the natural resource sector
January 23, 2025 This webinar examines the tactics and impacts of environmentalists’ intervention on resource initiatives from an Indigenous perspective. Environmental groups have actively opposed natural resource and infrastructure development in Indigenous territories. Many Indigenous communities see them as latter-day missionaries – outsiders convinced of their analyses and priorities and willing to impose their views […]
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How to economically empower First Nations in Canada: Ken Coates and Kody Penner for Inside Policy Talks – MLI
January 21, 2025 Welcome to Inside Policy Talks, where we discuss the most pressing policy issues shaping Canada’s indigenous economic development! In this episode, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Indigenous Affairs Program Director, Ken Coates, is joined by Kody Penner, Vice President of Corporate Development for Nations Royalty. Penner provides valuable insights on the innovative model that Nations […]
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