Genetically-modified foods are increasingly recognised as one of the indispensable tools in the world’s fight against starvation in the face of poplation growth that once again is outstripping food production….
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For my October 16th ROB column in the Globe and Mail I wrote about why Canadians in particular need a productivity revolution, where we are most likely to find it,…
In my Economy Lab column for the October 2nd edition of the Globe and Mail’s ROB I vent my ire on VW for their cheating scandal over diesel engines. After…
For the longest time Canada’s O&G industry reaped the benefits of having privileged access to the US market, serving regions that found it difficult or costly to bring in oil…
“Stimulus” is one of those words thrown around with gay abandon by politicians, especially dutring election campaigns, thinking they know what it means. In my column for the 18 September…
At the exact moment where Canada is risking its spot at the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in a quixotic effort to buttress supply management, the EU, that bastion of neo-liberalism, is…
It is fashionable in public policy circles to suggest that a chief object of such policy should be to promote “happiness” among the public and that we should therefore be…
Donald Trump isn’t just a bombastic windbag. He’s an economic crank, most obviously in his claim that America has weakened itself by allowing manufacturing to go to China. He promises…
In my column for the July 24th edition of the Globe I ruminate on the vulnerabilities that technology creates to various forms of hacking, data theft and cyber attacks, lamenting…
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