China is rising, and doing so in a way that challenges many of the foundations of a rules-based international order. This should be exceptionally worrisome to Canada, a country that…
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IN an op-ed on 23 August 2017 in the Globe and Mail, at a time when the arrival of asylum seekers illegally entering Canada was just starting to stike the…
On 25 July 2017 I wrote an op-ed in the Financial Post arguing that the latest international health care rankings from the Commonwealth Fund put paid to any notion that…
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…
What do the impending failure of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and China’s bad behaviour in the South China Sea have in common? Everything. And if TPP is indeed going…
The American Left (embodied by Bernie “Feel-the-Bern” Sanders) and Right (represented by Donald “The Donald” Trump) are what I variously refer to as the Sandrumps or the Trumpanders. Why? Because…
Commentary in the West was largely silent or else vaguely supportive when China recently announced it was changing its deacdes-old “one-child policy” to a “two-child policy”. Allow me to be…
My tutor at the LSE, Alan Beattie, who guided me through two graduate degrees (an M.Sc and a Ph.D.) at the School, died quite unexpectedly a few weeks ago in…
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…
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…