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14-minute read
Health Care Entrepreneurship – How to Encourage the Deployment of Telemedicine in Canada
The technologies behind telemedicine are available, and more Canadians could receive remote care, at home or at work, thereby saving themselves trips and avoiding long waits. Unfortunately, our governments are slow to remove obstacles that prevent patients from benefiting from virtual consultations, and doctors from providing this care.
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3-minute read
Réflexions sur la diversité des voix dans les médias
Media ownership and the lack of diversity.
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7-minute read
Emergency Rooms: Fewer Patients, Longer Waits
Earlier this year, the media reported that the situation in Quebec emergency rooms had improved in 2018-2019. Yet when we take a closer look at the Department of Health and Social Services data, we see that the opposite has happened, despite a reduction in the number of patient visits.
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6-minute read
Canada Shows the Way on Stock Markets
Canada has avoided the great die-off of public companies afflicting American business especially since the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which imposed new, more restrictive accounting and financial transparency rules. But with trends reversing somewhat since 2012, much work remains to be done in Canada to promote access to investment opportunities for the middle class. This would not only further democratize wealth-building for regular Canadians, but also give start-ups even greater ability to raise funds to grow their business.
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7-minute read
The Unintended Consequences of Municipal By-Laws
Montrealers may soon suffer the “unintended consequences” of two municipal policies likely to produce effects that are just the opposite of their stated purpose. This is in line with a dynamic that is well known to economists but often overlooked by politicians.
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IEDM – Bitfarms fait son entrée en Bourse – Jonathan Hamel
July 18, 2019 | 25 min. 15 sec. | Maurais Live (Radio X) Interview (in French) with Jonathan Hamel, Associate Researcher at […]
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MEI – Consolidation in the Air Sector – Vincent Geloso
Interview with Vincent Geloso, Associate Researcher at the MEI, about the impacts of Air Canada’s potential acquisition of Air Transat. Broadcast on June 27, 2019, on CBC News Network With Carole MacNeil.
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4-minute read
How Trump and Trudeau Can Strengthen US-Canada Partnership
The importance of our two countries’ trade relationship.
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IEDM – Libra, la nouvelle monnaie de Facebook – Jonathan Hamel
June 18, 2019 | 6 min. 20 sec. | L’heure du monde (Ici Radio-Canada) Interview (in French) with Jonathan Hamel, Associate Researcher […]
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IEDM – Concurrence dans le secteur aérien – Vincent Geloso
Interview (in French) with Vincent Geloso, Associate Researcher at the MEI, about the impacts of Air Canada’s potential acquisition of Air Transat. Broadcast on June 4, 2019, on the LCN Mario Dumont show.