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The pharmaceutical industry, shown to be of overwhelming importance over the past year and the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, is floundering in Canada. And new federal drug pricing regulations set to be implemented this July will only exacerbate the situation and worsen outcomes for Canadians overall. This new report from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute recommends a more collaborative approach between government and pharma companies.
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Canada gets a bad rap for our performance in areas of innovation and vital technologies due to our lack of patents and failure to harness intellectual property. But is that really fair? Barrie McKenna examines Canada’s intellectual property puzzle and what we can do to correct our failures and super-charge our economy in this report for the Innovation Economy Council.
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You may have heard that F.A. Hayek is not a conservative. But what did he really mean by that? Not what we might readily think using our contemporary usage of the term. Janet Bufton dissects the famous essay Why I Am Not a Conservative and outlines where a proper understanding of his thesis should leave our debates today.
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