On 25 July 2017 I wrote an op-ed in the Financial Post arguing that the latest international health care rankings from the Commonwealth Fund put paid to any notion that…
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“Perhaps most damning for a government that prides itself on evidence-based policy making, the government has silenced the 235 military personnel and civilian bureaucrats directly implicated in the fighter aircraft replacement program. They were forced to sign unprecedented lifetime gag orders—a curious thing if the government thought this considerable body of expertise would back the interim fighter decision.”
Ottawa’s plan to buy interim Super Hornets will cost more and fail to give the Canadian Forces the fighter it needs. That was the conclusion of a survey of defence…
As I argued in an op-ed for the Ottawa Citizen on 2 June 2017, the Ontario government wishes us to think that raising the minimum wage is a matter of…
At first blush you might think that the minimum wage and carbon taxes have nothing to do with one another. You’d be quite wrong however. That’s because the logic of…
In what turned out, alas, to be my last regular column for the Globe’s ROB, I point out that unemployment statistics hide more than they reveal. What tell us a…
Being landlocked is a bad place to be generally speaking on the international stage. Coastal states are guaranteed freedom of the seas, but landlocked states may not be able to…
Cities everywhere are perhaps the moist important drivers of prosperity, pulling millions out of poverty and putting them on the ladder of economic success. As I argued in my 28th…
In my 14th April column for the Globe’s ROB I lovingly debunk the notion put about by Ottawa and the provinces that the latter have somehow torn down the barriers…
On Robbie Burns Nicht last January we celebrated the Scottish Bard’s birth with readings of his poetry by fellow Scot John Ivison and some musical interludes featuring music Burns would…