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…
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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…
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…
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…