Robbie Burns night 2017 is, of course, tomorrow, January 25th. To celebrate the Scottish Bard and his immortal work some friends and I are organising a little concert of Scottish-themed…
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My editors at the Report on Business asked me to do a “what to expect in 2017” sort of column for my last one of 2016. Rather than dreary economic…
Canada has too many tax credits that light up the tax code like a Christmas tree. Lots of them should be scrapped and the Liberals, to their credit(!), have said…
When in early december he announced his decision on several pipelines, approving two and vetoing another, Prime Minister Trudeau clearly thought he was showing how these decisions ought to be…
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…
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…