Inside Policy Talks

Welcome to Inside Policy Talks, the premier video podcast of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. In this episode, Peter Copeland, Deputy Director of MLI's Domestic Program, is joined by Kristopher Kinsinger, an Ontario lawyer and civil liberties advocate, to discuss the pressing issues surrounding freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly in Canada. They delve into the legal framework an...

Welcome to Inside Policy Talks, the premier video podcast of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. In this episode, Alex Dalziel, Senior Fellow and National Security Project Lead at MLI, sits down with Jamie Tronnes, the Executive Director of MLI's Center for North American Prosperity and Security in Washington, DC. They dive deep into the pressing issues surrounding Canada's immigration policy and its...

Welcome to Inside Policy Talks, the premier video podcast of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. In this episode, Alex Dalziel sits down with Jamie Ferrill, Head of Financial Crime Studies & Lecturer at the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, to tackle Canada’s growing challenges with transnational crime and money laundering. Ferrill explains how criminal networks exploit global...

Welcome to Inside Policy, the flagship video podcast of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. In this episode, Peter Copeland, Deputy Director of MLI’s Domestic Policy Program, is joined by Senior Fellow Dr. Ramona Coelho, a family physician from London, Ontario, whose practice is dedicated to serving marginalized communities. Together, they discuss Dr. Coelho's recent work with Ontario’s Medical Assis...

Welcome to Inside Policy Talks, the premier video podcast of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. In this episode, Peter Copeland, Deputy Director of MLI's Domestic Program, is joined by Ryan Alford, a professor of law and MLI Senior Fellow. They delve into the pressing issues surrounding mandatory minimums and the evolving landscape of criminal justice reform in Canada. They examine the implications...

Welcome to Double Trouble, a special foreign policy focused podcast series within MLI's Inside Policy Talks, to address the growing challenge of the Sino-Russian axis of authoritarianism facing the West. In this episode, MLI's Balkan Devlen sits down with Edward Hunter Christie, a senior research fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and former deputy head of NATO's Innovation U...

Welcome to Inside Policy Talks , the premier video podcast of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. In this episode, Peter Copeland, Deputy Director of MLI's Domestic Program, is joined by Dave Snow, a professor of political science at the University of Guelph and MLI Senior Fellow, to explore the complexities of bail legislation and crime trends in Canada. Both discuss MLI's recently released Urban Cr...

Welcome to Inside Policy Talks , the premier video podcast of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. In this episode, Peter Copeland, Deputy Director of MLI's Domestic Program, is joined by Matthew Spoke, a Canadian tech entrepreneur and Founder of Moves, a fintech company for the gig economy, to discuss what lies at the root of Canada's current housing crisis. Both discuss how restrictive land use poli...

Welcome to Double Trouble, a special foreign policy focused podcast series within MLI's Inside Policy Talks, to address the growing challenge of the Sino-Russian axis of authoritarianism facing the West. In this episode, MLI's Balkan Devlen sits down with Una Bērziņa-Čerenkova, political scientist and China scholar, to discuss the shifting attitudes towards China across the Baltic countries. In re...

Welcome to Inside Policy Talks , the premier video podcast of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. In this episode, Peter Copeland, Deputy Director of MLI's Domestic Program, interviews Emma Hilton, a leading expert on sex and sports, on the complexities of gender categories in athletic competition, particularly at the Olympics: What are the performance disparities between males and females in sports?...

Welcome to Inside Policy Talks , the premier video podcast of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. In this episode, Alex Dalziel sits down with Alan Bersin, a former Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security and Commissioner of the US Customs and Border Protection, to explore modern border management between the U.S. and Canada. They discuss how a trilateral, technology-driven approach to border securi...

Welcome to Inside Policy Talks , the premier video podcast of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. In this episode, Peter Copeland, Deputy Director of MLI's Domestic Program, interviews Christine Van Geyn, Litigation Director for the Canadian Constitution Foundation, on the growing impact of regulatory creep on free expression in Canada: How are professional regulators limiting freedoms? What are the...

Welcome to Double Trouble, a special foreign policy focused podcast series within MLI's Inside Policy Talks, to address the growing challenge of the Sino-Russian axis of authoritarianism facing the West. In this episode, MLI senior fellows Jonathan Berkshire Miller, Marcus Kolga, and Alexander Lanoszka discuss their experience in Prague at a premier global security forum, GLOBESEC.  The Macdonald-...

Welcome to Inside Policy Talks , the premier video podcast of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. In this episode, Alex Dalziel sits down with Dr. Todd Hataley to discuss the growing threat of transnational organized crime in Canada, the fentanyl crisis, and how Canada can better secure its border with the U.S. Find Inside Policy Talks on YouTube and wherever else you get your audio. Like, review, co...

Welcome to Inside Policy Talks, the premier video podcast of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. In this episode you'll hear Balkan Devlen in conversation with Dr. Artis Pabriks, Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister of Latvia, to discuss Canada-Latvia relations, with a focus on cooperation in the development of defence technologies, including drones.  Find Inside Policy Talks on YouTube and...

Welcome to Double Trouble, a special foreign policy focused podcast series within MLI's Inside Policy Talks, to address the growing challenge of the Sino-Russian axis of authoritarianism facing the West. In this episode, Benjamin Tallis joins Senior Fellow Balkan Devlen to discuss neo-idealism, an ideological framework by which western democratic nations can promote the fundamental values of freed...

Welcome to Inside Policy Talks, the premier video podcast of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. In this episode you'll hear Alexander Dalziel in conversation with Heather Exner-Pirot on the geopolitical implications of energy security, focusing on Canada's strategic position as a major energy producer and exporter. Find Inside Policy Talks on YouTube and wherever else you get your audio. Like, revie...

Welcome to Inside Policy Talks, the premier video podcast of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. In this episode you'll hear Alexander Dalziel in conversation with Christian Leuprecht on the rise of financial crime in Canada and what our government should be doing about it.  Find Inside Policy Talks on YouTube and wherever else you get your audio. Like, review, comment, share, subscribe!

Welcome to Double Trouble, a special foreign policy focused podcast series within MLI's Inside Policy Talks, to address the growing challenge of the Sino-Russian axis of authoritarianism facing the West. In this episode you'll hear transatlantic program director Balkan Devlen in conversation with MLI Senior Fellows Alexander Lanoszka and Richard Shimooka. Devlen, Lanoszka and Shimooka unpack Canad...

In this special episode of Inside Policy Talks, Balkan Devlen sits down with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's managing director Brian Lee Crowley and the Center for North American Prosperity and Security's (CNAPS') executive director Jamie Tronnes to discuss their experiences and impressions at the NATO Summit in Washington, D.C. In sum, Canada was chastised for its freeriding and an unwillingnes...

On this episode of Inside Policy Talks, MLI's Balkan Devlen and Alexander Lanoszka are joined by Toms Rostoks, director of the Centre for Security and Strategic Research at the National Defense Academy of Latvia, to discuss their recent MLI report:  Success assured? Appraising the Canadian-led Enhanced Forward Presence battlegroup in Latvia https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/success-assured-canada-latvia...

Welcome to Double Trouble, a special foreign policy focused podcast series within MLI's Inside Policy Talks, to address the growing challenge of the Sino-Russian axis of authoritarianism facing the West. In this episode you'll hear Balkan Devlen in conversation with Alexander Lanozska and Jonathan Berkshire Miller on their recent paper, Hard constraints – The supply and demand of NATO in the Indo-...

On this episode of Inside Policy Talks, MLI senior fellows Alexander Dalziel, Balkan Devlen, and Jonathan Berkshire Miller walk through the NSICOP report on foreign interference, weighing in on where Canada needs to go from here.  Like, share, subscribe, download!

Welcome to Double Trouble, a special foreign policy focused podcast series within MLI's Inside Policy Talks, to address the growing challenge of the Sino-Russian axis of authoritarianism facing the West. In this episode you'll hear Balkan Devlen in conversation with Alex Dalziel on his new paper Eurasian North: The Geopolitics of Russia and China in the Arctic. https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/eurasian...

Jüri Seilenthat, the director general for trade policy from the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, joined Alex Dalziel,  MLI's National Security program lead, to discuss how Estonia is responding to Russia and China's threat to energy security. Like, share, subscribe, download!