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Vol. VII, No. 9 Sept. 24, 2016
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In this edition...
Events: Great Canadian Debates launch on Oct. 25
Justice: Report card charts "justice deficit" in Canada
News: Leuprecht, Newman honoured
Economy: Finding positives in Canada's stagnant economy
Health care: Sustainable Medicare for all
Education: Finding the right metrics for Canada's universities
Security: How much safer is the US 15 years on from 9/11?
Economy: "Slowth" shows need to spur the innovation agenda
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Great Canadian Debate Oct. 25: Susan Eng and Margaret Wente debate Canada's seniors
Tickets are now on sale for the next Great Canadian Debate!
On Oct. 25, 2016 at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente and seniors' rights advocate Susan Eng will debate the motion: "Canada must stop coddling its spoiled seniors".

Canada is suffering from a "justice deficit" - a large and growing gap between the aspirations of the criminal justice system and its actual performance.
That's the main conclusion from MLI's inaugural Report Card on the Criminal Justice System. Following an extensive data-gathering effort, authors Benjamin Perrin and Richard Audas have rated the provincial and territorial justice systems according to public safety, support for victims, cost and resources, fairness and access, and efficiency.
The paper earned MLI coverage in influential news outlets across the country, including Postmedia papers, CBC News and radio stations all over Canada. The authors also wrote op-eds that appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press and the Charlottetown Guardian.
Congratulations to Christian Leuprecht and Dwight Newman, who earlier this month joined some of the country's leading academic thinkers as members of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists at the Royal Society of Canada.
Scuffling Canadian economy trending up, says Philip Cross in economic update
The economy's recent contraction showed just how vulnerable Canada is to unexpected shocks such as the Alberta wildfires this past spring, says Munk Senior Fellow Philip Cross in his quarterly economic update for MLI.
Cross discussed his report in an interview on BNN and a column in the Financial Post. Munk Senior Fellow Sean Speer also mentioned it in a column for the Financial Post.
Sustainable Medicare For All, the fourth and final video in MLI's "Medicare's Midlife Crisis" series, looks at how governments across Canada can encourage better services for Canadians at a lower cost to taxpayers.
MLI Munk Senior Fellow Sean Speer discussed the need for health care reform in an interview with CTV.
Canada needs better measures for gauging how its post-secondary institutions are performing, write Ken Coates and Douglas Auld in the Globe and Mail.
Is America any safer 15 years after 9/11?
Munk Senior Fellow Shuvaloy Majumdar weighed in with the answer on CTV. He also discussed accountability issues at the UN in another CTV interview.
Innovation agenda needed to counter economy's continued "slow growth": Sean Speer on CBC
Slow growth - or, as the CBC called it, "slowth" - appears to be the new normal for a Canadian economy that once seemed to be continually on the upswing.
How should Canadian governments adapt?
Sean Speer, an MLI Munk Senior Fellow, took part in a panel on CBC's On the Money to help answer that question.
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