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China is a major market that Hollywood is seeking to take advantage of. But this is proving increasingly thorny for major studios as China’s censoriousness and humans rights abuses become all the more prevalent. What factors are playing into this dynamic, and how should the western world approach doing business with China? The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood discusses.
Read MoreBy still utilizing global-budget, lump sum payments to hospitals, Canada is among a small group of outliers when it comes to health-care funding. Most developed nations with universal systems use a per-patient, activity based funding model that leads to better outcomes, and Canada should do the same argues this study from the Fraser Institute.
Read MoreIndustrial policy, once a long-dead idea, is gaining traction on both the left and the right these days. President Biden has included it as a centrepiece in his new economic plan, and parts of the right have advocated for it as well, from Marco Rubio to American Compass. This report from the Niskanen Center examines the best way to apply these policies so as to overcome the daunting challenges facing the American economy.
Read MoreThe weak associational life of modern western society has been a source of consternation and study for many cultural and political observers. Lack of social capital is often held up…
Read MoreThe government’s Bill C-10 would grant the government extensive new powers to bring social media and user-generated content under the regulatory control of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. This…
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic has been the greatest shock to Canada’s healthcare system in more than a century. While it has managed to avoid serious risk of collapse, areas of institutional…
Read MoreYuval Levin looks back at how the arguments of his latest book, A Time to Build, have held up since it was released in January of 2020. Speaking with Public Discourse, he outlines the state of institutions, populism, and the problems of social media in this wide-ranging discussion.
Read MoreThe report that the World Health Organization released following its investigation into the origins of COVID-19 was immediately criticized in a statement released by 14 countries, including Canada, on the…
Read MoreOur digital infrastructure has been crucial to allowing a bulk of our workforce to keep their jobs and the broader economy to function as people have transitioned to working from home over the past year. Many of these changes are likely to persist post-pandemic, and our recovery will rely on the strength of our digital connectivity, outlines this report from Public Policy Forum.
Read MoreCanada plans to increase its immigration numbers by 1.2 million people in the next three years. But how do immigrants fare once they reach our country? A new paper from Statistics Canada compares the employment rate and weekly earnings of immigrant and Canadian-born workers throughout the 200s and 2010s.
Read MoreCanada’s conservatives need to offer the country a positive alternative vision, a future-oriented plan that aspires to national greatness, says The Hub’s Sean Speer. He discusses this need and the state of conservatism in general with Geoff Costeloe and James Robertson on their podcast Unbound: Fearlessly Exploring Issues That Matter.
Read MoreThe oil sands are a uniquely Canadian success story and an increasingly rare example of innovation in this country. They provide substantial benefits not only to Alberta but to Canada as a whole, outlines Philip Cross in a paper for Macdonald-Laurier Institute that examines the effects of increased investment in the industry.
Read MoreWhile it may be contentious, there are some worthwhile benefits to implementing a non-mandatory, decentralized COVID vaccine passport program argues Miguel Ouellette and Maria Lily Shaw of the Montreal Economic Institute. Vaccine-leading Israel showcases a successful model Canada may want to consider.
Read MoreSeeking to balance human rights concerns with economic opportunity has long been the approach with a growing China. But this is the wrong balance to strike, says Luke Patey in Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Inside Policy. Diversifying away from the Chinese market would not be crippling to Canada, and any retaliation from Beijing can be overcome, he writes.
Read MoreLooking to increase innovation is key for economies at the best of times, but all the more so as we seek to recover from the pandemic. A new research paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research examines the importance of increasing both the quantity and quality of human capital as a means of achieving this elusive innovation.
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