On 18 Oct 2017 I had an op-ed in the Sun newspaper chain arguing that technolgical innovation has rendered tobacco abstinence the wrong policy if we want to reduce the…
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The 2017 G7 meeting in Japan should give Prime Minister Trudeau reason to reflect on his plan for deficit spending as Sean Speer and I argued in an op-ed in…
In April the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its disappointing decision on the so-called “Free the Beer” case. Those of you who know my militant views on the importance of…
On 19 April 2018, Sean Speer and I wrote for Inside Policy on the manifest failures of Ottawa’s infrastructure programme. The idea that taxpayers, rather than those who actually use…
All the way back in April 2018 (the 18th to be precise) I was arguing in MLI’s Inside Policy magazine that the real obstacle to completing the TransMountain pipeline wasn’t going…
On 23 March 2018, Ryerson history professor Patrice Dutil and I did a podcast on how modern Canadians should feel about Canadian history. This segment in the series Pod Bless…
It appears the only way a major pipeline project in Canada can get built is if the federal government buys the project as it did when it spent $4.5 billion…
There can be fewer spots on the face of the earth filled with more tension than the Taiwan Straits that separate the People’s Republic of China from Taiwan. China regards…
On 6 March 2018, MLI Munk Sr Fellow Sean Speer and I did a podcast in MLI’s Pod Bless Canada series where we talked about fiscal policy and the climate…
In the 22 Feb. 2018 edition of MLI’s Pod Bless Canada podcast series, MLI Munk Sr Fellow Ken Coates and I talk about his work about securing long-term prosperity for…