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Quality Content Episode 11: On The Podium, with Alexander Shelley

“For some people when they hear the words symphony or classical music, a wall goes up. They feel like there’s a tent that they’re not in and that they don’t know enough for some reason. It’s really so important to...

Photos from the Tax & Competitiveness Summit

Hon. Andrew Leslie Sarah Goldfeder, Bruce Ball, Fred O’Riordan Francis Fong Ian Mckay, Sarah Turnbull Kevin Brookes Heather Scoffield, Robert Asselin, Sean Speer Trevin Stratton Liz Mulholland Susan Smith, Hon. John Manley Paul Lefebvre Kevin Milligan

Wonk with Mike Episode 22: “You Can’t Do Nothing” about Climate Change, with Chris Ragan

“It’s easy to say we don’t like taxes. It’s easy to say all taxes are bad but it’s not so easy to offer an alternative. So let’s actually make sure that people who are opposed to a carbon price are...

/Thread Episode 20: Three Days of Weed, Twitter Blocking, and Louis C.K.’s comedy comeback

“Police essentially have the right to stop just about any driver they suspect of intoxication which is much freer reign than police have had and history shows us that we ought to worry about how that discretion is going to...

Explain Like I’m Five Episode 15: Cannabis legalization, with Anne McLellan

“Good rule to start with, if you can’t smoke tobacco wherever you are, you cannot smoke cannabis.” Host Aaron Reynolds sits down with Anne McLellan, former deputy prime minister, cabinet minister, and chair of Canada’s task force on cannabis legalization...

In Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Bob Woodward

November 7th, 2018 | Royal York Hotel, Toronto | 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm On November 7th, 2018, the day after the U.S midterm elections, Canada 2020 will host Bob Woodward, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of Fear: Trump...

Wonk with Mike Episode 21: Stats Cannabis, with James Tebrake

“Our issue was not so much how are we going to measure [cannabis] going forward but how do we measure the back period, the illegal period, so that when we provide a measure of GDP post-legalization we have a nice...

/Thread Episode 19: Climate, Cannabis, and Kanye West

“The idea that carbon taxes don’t work – I’m sure you could misdesign them and mess them up – but you’re arguing essentially that prices don’t affect behaviour, which is not the way I live and it’s not the way anyone...

Explain Like I’m Five Episode 14: Regulating Canadian Content, with Michael Geist

“One way to help ensure that Canadians can make a living out of participating in the cultural sector is to ensure there’s a ready market for what they’re creating.” Michael Geist, law professor and Canada Research Chair in Internet and...

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