The way to break the logjam on Gateway is to turn it from an outsiders’ project resented by mistrustful first nations along the route into a full partnership between an…
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December 21, 2012 – Canada’s pension system is not a failing system. Read my latest Postmedia column below, also published in the Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette, Edmonton Journal,…
In a new op-ed for iPolitics today, University of Saskatchewan Professor Ken Coates and I discuss the way forward for governments and First Nations. Rage and rebirth: The way forward for First…
Aboriginals can and should bargain hard as they increasingly consider real development, including pipelines. Read my latest op-ed co-authored by Ken Coates below. Is this community ready for the…
Human beings add something crucial to the world: their intelligence. And the history of humanity has been one of the successful incremental application of human intelligence to the problems of…
Dear senators: Maritime Union isn’t the answer; the effort required would be gargantuan and the likely results meagre at best. You have the region’s best interests at heart, so cut…
In determining whether Ottawa should allow Chinese state-owned enterprise CNOOC Ltd. to buy Canadian energy firm Nexen Inc., much hangs on one question: Is Canada in a position of weakness…
Harper is wise to stay clear of premiers’ talks. The premiers are trying to save face by turning the PM’s absence into a “snub” that will prevent them from having…
With more than two billion more people expected to be living on Earth by 2050, more food will be eaten in the next 50 years than in the whole rest…
The U.S. fiscal cliff was designed to provoke exactly the reaction we are all having. It was to strike fear into the hearts of politicians, journalists and voters, so that they…