Our universities’ and governments’ capacity for critical self-examination, never too well-developed at the best of times, appear to have been completely overwhelmed by the gold rush to attract foreign students…
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If you’ve ever wondered why it is that provinces, who have no constitutional authority to regulate either interprovincial or international commerce, seem able to stop you from buying directly from…
In my latest screed for the ROB, I point out that for all its benefits, NAFTA is now showing its age. Twenty-five years after Canada and the US signed their…
My head must need examining. Here I am once again pointing out that the Emperor has no clothes to a crowd of admirers of the imperial fashion sense. Yes, I…
The Fraser Institute’s Mark Milke made headlines recently with his report on the vertiginous rise in spending on Aboriginal peoples by governments in recent decades. But he neglected the context,…
In my most recent column for the Globe’s Report on Business, I took to task the advocates of an expanded CPP for their failure to explain exactly what the problem…
The death of Nelson Mandela inevitably makes one think about the death of apartheid, the cruel and poisonous system of institutionalised racism he helped to topple. But all too few…
As I write in my latest column in the Globe’s Report on Business, the Mowat Centre, a think tank on Ontario issues, thinks that Ontario should only “allow” pipelines carrying…
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…
In my latest column for the Ottawa Citizen I explain why it is pure fantasy to think that “getting the politics out of Senate appointments” will fix the Senate. James…