One of Canada’s most respected social thinkers and a man who has been a great inspiration to me personally, Tom Courchene of Queen’s University, wrote an op-ed in The Globe…
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In response to my op-ed about the addition of new seats to the House of Commons in the Globe of 26/9/09, one reader wrote in with a familiar objection: Brian…
Some readers of this blog will have noticed that the Globe’s front page story yesterday concerned the yet-to-be announced plans of the federal government to add roughly 30 seats to…
C2C, a feisty on-line journal, has just released its new edition focused on the downturn and prospects for recovery. They have kindly included an extract from Fearful Symmetry where I…
In a follow up column to his two-part series on Fearful Symmetry, Globe columnist Neil Reynolds talked about the dissenters among his readership: “In this space last week, economist Brian…
Check out Rick Peterson’s comments about Fearful Symmetry on his blog posting of 11th September. He talks about the opportunity that is offered to the Conservative Party by the kind…
One of the central features of the argument of Fearful Symmetry is that the entry of a vast wave of unilingual French-speaking Quebeckers helped to trigger a vast expansion of…
 We decided not to include many of the graphics in Fearful Symmetry, in part because of the technical difficulties in doing so, and in part because books with lots…
In a stimulating post on her excellent blog, Janet Ajzenstat wrote recently about her opposityion to Ottawa’s use of its spending power. Citing Barry Cooper’s new book, It’s the Regime,…
Two forces have shaped Canada profoundly in the last fifty years: the entry of Boomers into the workforce and the rise of a separatist Quebec nationalism. Large-scale unemployment plus the…