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.
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.
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