Those who think the recent confrontations over fracking in Elsipogtog are unprecedented and intractable have forgotten their history. Fifteen years ago the issue was the fishery and Burnt Church was…
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My good friend Ken Coates and I recently published an op-ed in the Globe and Mail about the violent confrontations occurring at the Elsipogtog First Nation reserve in New Brunswick….
Thanks to the Taiwan government’s generosity, I have just returned from a visit to the island as part of a Canadian delegation made up of think tankers and academics. The…
In my latest column for the Globe’s ROB, I take on the resource nationalists who yearn for all Canada’s petroleum to be processed in Canada. I ask why, if there…
In my newest column for the Ottawa Citizen and other Postmedia papers I tell the story of what I learned about political leadership by watching Pierre Trudeau when I was…
In my regular ROB column in today’s Globe (September 5th, 2013) I look into the alleged value of a university degree, both as a qualification for the job market AND…
New column: why if Senate abolition is the answer we’re asking the wrong question: http://bit.ly/15b4BOJ
In my latest column for the Globe’s ROB, I examine the issue of taxis — why they’re so expensive, why the service is so bad, and why the whole industry…
In my latest column for the Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun and other Postmedia dailies I examine the issues raised by governments’ enthusiasm for casinos. Politicians have allowed their…
In my latest column for the Globe & Mail, I call down the worst the car-haters can muster in defence of the automobile and what it has meant in terms…