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…
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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…
In my regular Globe (ROB) column that appeared on 30 Sept. I delight in pointing out the absurdities of most government “innovation” policies. Governments cannot create new ideas by fiat,…
Sean Speer and I released a paper through MLI on 29 Sept. making the case that the fingering of foreigners as the primary cause of rising house prices is a…