My editors at the Report on Business asked me to do a “what to expect in 2017” sort of column for my last one of 2016. Rather than dreary economic…
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When in early december he announced his decision on several pipelines, approving two and vetoing another, Prime Minister Trudeau clearly thought he was showing how these decisions ought to be…
Talk to the Australians and they will tell you that the “Pacific Rim” is old hat. The action now is in the Indo-Pacific, in other words the littoral nations on…
To hear the chattering classes tell it, the election of Donald Trump is the End of the World as We Have Known It and over the gate to the new…
In my last column for the ROB’s Economy Lab (in the G&M, 28 Oct.), I made the case for reconciliation with Indigenous people (FNs, Metis and Inuit) not just on…
In my regular Globe (ROB) column that appeared on 30 Sept. I delight in pointing out the absurdities of most government “innovation” policies. Governments cannot create new ideas by fiat,…
Sean Speer and I released a paper through MLI on 29 Sept. making the case that the fingering of foreigners as the primary cause of rising house prices is a…
Canada should be a world food superpower. Instead, as I wrote in my 10th June Economy Lab column for the Globe’s ROB, we are seeing our share of markets steadily…
You might be of the view that Uber and Canadian health care have nothing in common. How wrong you would be! They are both classic instances of how governments’ rhetorical…
The dumbing down of the public service continues apace as Ottawa’s appeal to the guru of deliverology underlines. The whole subtext of deliverology is that civil servants exist merely to…