Dear senators: Maritime Union isn’t the answer; the effort required would be gargantuan and the likely results meagre at best. You have the region’s best interests at heart, so cut…
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In determining whether Ottawa should allow Chinese state-owned enterprise CNOOC Ltd. to buy Canadian energy firm Nexen Inc., much hangs on one question: Is Canada in a position of weakness…
Harper is wise to stay clear of premiers’ talks. The premiers are trying to save face by turning the PM’s absence into a “snub” that will prevent them from having…
With more than two billion more people expected to be living on Earth by 2050, more food will be eaten in the next 50 years than in the whole rest…
The U.S. fiscal cliff was designed to provoke exactly the reaction we are all having. It was to strike fear into the hearts of politicians, journalists and voters, so that they…
Is Canada sending conflicting signals, claiming on the one hand we are open for business and on the other looking askance at CNOOC? We can be open for business but…
For the government to change the museum’s name and provide millions of dollars to assist with the shift to a more history-focused mandate is not undue political interference but an…
The award of the Nobel Prize to the EU tells us a lot more about who is giving the prize than it does about the worthiness of the recipient. Read…
In my latest column for the Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald and Vancouver Sun, I caution Canadian CEOs to not only have eyes for China. Full column below: CEOs only…
Americans just don’t get it when it comes to understanding deficits. And not only do they not get it, they don’t even understand what it is they don’t get. They…