Pledges by the Liberals during the last federal election sent expectations about progress on Indigenous affairs soaring. But, as my colleague Ken Coates and I argued for iPolitics, Ottawa’s failure…
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Writing in the Sun newspaper chain on November 27th, 2016, my colleague Sean Speer and I tackle on of the hottest issues of the day: redistribution vs opportunity and which…
Talk to the Australians and they will tell you that the “Pacific Rim” is old hat. The action now is in the Indo-Pacific, in other words the littoral nations on…
To mark National Philanthropy Day Sean Seer and I wrote a piece for Inside Policy pointing out the social and economic benefits that Canadian society derives from philanthropic giving. But…
To hear the chattering classes tell it, the election of Donald Trump is the End of the World as We Have Known It and over the gate to the new…
Naive Canadian that you are, you may actually have believed the government when it offered the following justification of budget deficits at a time of economic growth: We are not…
In my last column for the ROB’s Economy Lab (in the G&M, 28 Oct.), I made the case for reconciliation with Indigenous people (FNs, Metis and Inuit) not just on…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes no bones about his admiration for China. He is also a great advocate of infrastructure spending to stimulate the economy. In my latest column for…
Writing with my inestimable colleague, Sean Speer, in the National Post we published an op-ed on October 6th offering our advice to Ottawa on the health care reform. The advice…
Inspired by a new Angus Reid/CBC poll that shows young Canadians significantly less likely than their older compatriots to feel patriotic about Canada, I wrote my Oct. 11th Ottawa Citizen…