One of President Obama’s recent themes in his criticism of the Keystone XL pipeline is the dismissive comment that it will transport “Canadian oil”, as if that were obviously a…
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In this week’s column for the Globe’s Economy Lab feature I have a little fun with words. Specifically I call to order those who erroneously call Google’s dominance in the…
My friend and mentor, Purdy Crawford, a giant of the Canadian legal and business world, passed away yesterday. His death marks the passing not just of a man and a…
As regular readers of this site know, I have the privilege of being a regular columnist with the Ottawa Citizen. Through them a number of my columns appear in other…
In my latest paper (“Beyond scandal and patronage: A rationale and a strategy for serious Senate reform”) for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute I lay out a comprehensive case for Senate reform…
Those who think the recent confrontations over fracking in Elsipogtog are unprecedented and intractable have forgotten their history. Fifteen years ago the issue was the fishery and Burnt Church was…
Almost 10 yrs ago I was advising First Nations to build upscale clinics on reserves. Now it’s about to happen. Better late then never. Innovation is about to hit Canadian…
If the current Quebec election standings are confirmed, there is even less reason for Ottawa to regard any PQ government as anything but a weak minority with no mandate to…
In my latest column for the Ottawa Citizen, I write that the centrist Liberals would do themselves and the country a far greater service by rediscovering their deep roots as a party of…
On October 5, 2011, I was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article discussing how recent opinion polls ahead of today’s Ontario election indicate a possible third straight majority for…