Ottawa’s plan to buy interim Super Hornets will cost more and fail to give the Canadian Forces the fighter it needs. That was the conclusion of a survey of defence…
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As I argued in an op-ed for the Ottawa Citizen on 2 June 2017, the Ontario government wishes us to think that raising the minimum wage is a matter of…
After the Cold War, the West dismantled much of its capacity to oppose Russian propaganda and disinformation. Now our own complacency and an emboldened Vladimir Putin is leaving us prey…
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…
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…
Writing in my regular Ottawa Citizen column on July 15th, 2016, I argue that the most recent dispute over the South China Sea is a challenge not merely to Canada…
In my June 16th, 2016 Ottawa Citizen column in the days leading up to the federal-provincial meeting on CPP expansion I urged Canadians not to believe the hype coming from…
In my May 20th column for the Ottawa Citizen and other Postmedia papers I take aim at the attitude that employers must tie themselves in knots to accommodate young workers’…
The Grits are fumbling the defence of the LAV sale to Saudi Arabia. And they’re not just fumbling a little bit. It’s a Bob-Stanfield-dropping-the-football photo op kind of fumble. Yet…
As I argue in my March 26th column for the Ottawa Citizen and other Postmedia papers, the Liberals have chosen internal trade liberalisation as the one issue where they see…