Eric Kaufmann: How diversity requirements reduced productivity for Canada's research chairs
Critics of DEI have long warned that demographic-based hiring requirements can come at the expense of merit and academic excellence. In a recent MLI paper, The equity excellence trade-off: A study of ...
4 Sep 57min
Sylvain Charlebois: Canada's dairy industry in decline
Canada's dairy industry is one of the most protected sectors of the Canadian economy. But is that protection holding the industry back?While Canada's dairy sector has long benefited from policies desi...
21 Aug 52min
Lt.-Col. Joel Maley: Deterrence is cheaper than defence
Latvia is home to Canada's largest overseas military deployment, with more than 2,000 members of the Canadian Armed Forces serving on NATO's eastern flank.Why are Canadians there? Why should Canadians...
14 Aug 50min
Rainer Knopff and Ted Morton: Canadian judges ran amok with the Charter
Special episode: Peter Copeland, acting director of domestic policy at MLI, sat down last month with eminent Canadian political scientists Rainer Knopff and Ted Morton. 25 years ago Morton and Knopff'...
6 Aug 1h 2min
Carl Trueman: Euthanasia, transgenderism, and transgression
By almost every material measure life has become safer, richer, and more convenient... so why do many people seem more anxious, lonely, and unhappy?We often explain this malaise in economic or psychol...
30 Jul 1h 4min
Garry Clement: Foreign actors see Canada as the lane of least resistance
For years Canada seemed to be the more peaceful part of North America. But that narrative is changing.Recently a Toronto police officer was shot while investigating a series of shootings in the city, ...
23 Jul 51min
Rob Henderson: Stigma and expectations will make your life better
For young men, there used to be “a ton of societal pressure on you to make something of yourself.” That’s one of many positive culture norms that we’ve now lost, says author Rob Henderson.Today, “some...
16 Jul 1h 1min
Christine Van Geyn and Ryan Alford: Canadian courts imagine wild scenarios to avoid punishing criminals
Canada’s judges have become “completely divorced from reality” in the reasoning they use to bat down mandatory minimum sentences for serious crimes, says Christine Van Geyn, interim executive director...
9 Jul 49min
