Inside Policy Talks
Inside Policy Talks is the premier video podcast of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Ottawa's most influential public policy think tank. The Macdonald-Laurier Institute exists to make bad public policy unacceptable in our nations capital.

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Erica Komisar: Healthy family life requires tradeoffs

Erica Komisar: Healthy family life requires tradeoffs

Our culture tells parents that “you can do it all” – but that's “a very dangerous narrative” and “a narcissistic trope,” says social worker and parenting coach Erica Komisar.Is it time for our culture...

30 Huhti 59min

Keldon Bester: How to address the demand for online gambling

Keldon Bester: How to address the demand for online gambling

Sports betting, online gambling, and now prediction markets are becoming harder to avoid. What was once confined to casinos or occasional wagers is now built into our phones, advertised on sports broa...

23 Huhti 59min

Melanie Phillips: The West can’t wrap its head around Islam

Melanie Phillips: The West can’t wrap its head around Islam

“The whole of the West views Islam … through a Western cultural prism,” and that’s a problem, says British author and commentator Melanie Phillips.With terrorism, extremism, and antisemitism surging t...

16 Huhti 58min

Yuan Yi Zhu, Xavier Foccroulle Ménard and François Côté: The Supreme Court's judicial activism is a threat to Parliamentary sovereignty

Yuan Yi Zhu, Xavier Foccroulle Ménard and François Côté: The Supreme Court's judicial activism is a threat to Parliamentary sovereignty

Last month, a major constitutional showdown took place before the Supreme Court of Canada. Over four days of hearings, the court heard from a record number of interveners in quite possibly the biggest...

9 Huhti 1h 35min

Brendan Case: We need better metrics for human flourishing

Brendan Case: We need better metrics for human flourishing

As Canada continues its decade-long slide in the UN’s global happiness rankings, there’s growing questions about whether policymakers are even using the right metrics to measure the indicators of livi...

27 Maalis 1h 7min

David Wand: Race should not trump merit at Canada’s universities

David Wand: Race should not trump merit at Canada’s universities

Across the country, law and medical schools have adopted identity-based admissions criteria in the name of equity. But very little data has been available on how those policies work. New research from...

19 Maalis 53min

Nadav Eyal: For the Islamic regime, survival is victory

Nadav Eyal: For the Islamic regime, survival is victory

As the second week of war in Iran continues, there’s growing questions about whether regime change is possible, and what the end game looks like. The United States and Israel have taken out the long-t...

12 Maalis 44min

Rob Huebert: Unpacking Canada’s position on the war in Iran

Rob Huebert: Unpacking Canada’s position on the war in Iran

In the wake of the United States and Israel’s military actions against the Islamic regime in Iran, nations around the world rushed to stake out their positions on the strikes. While some voices condem...

5 Maalis 48min

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