On 5 March, 2025 I published an op-ed in the National Post saying that the election of Donald Trump had changed everything about the looming federal election. Pierre Poilievre needs…
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On 7 January 2025 former federal minister Tony Clement had me on his News Forum talk show to do a retrospective on 2024 and a look ahead for 2025.
On 7 November 2024 I was pleased to participate in a panel at the esteemed Philadelphia Society’s main annual meeting in McLean, Virginia. Drawing on my last book, Gardeners vs…
I have a bit of a bee in my bonnet these days about China, as any sensible person should. Everyone seems fixated on Donald Trump bullying Canada (and that is…
At first blush you might think that the minimum wage and carbon taxes have nothing to do with one another. You’d be quite wrong however. That’s because the logic of…
In what turned out, alas, to be my last regular column for the Globe’s ROB, I point out that unemployment statistics hide more than they reveal. What tell us a…
Being landlocked is a bad place to be generally speaking on the international stage. Coastal states are guaranteed freedom of the seas, but landlocked states may not be able to…
Cities everywhere are perhaps the moist important drivers of prosperity, pulling millions out of poverty and putting them on the ladder of economic success. As I argued in my 28th…
In my 14th April column for the Globe’s ROB I lovingly debunk the notion put about by Ottawa and the provinces that the latter have somehow torn down the barriers…
There is no wall protecting Canada from the populist tidal wave that washed Donald Trump to the presidency in the United States, as I argue in a new Macdonald-Laurier Institute…