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Equality is tricky to calculate. It has gone in the direction the Liberals want but not so much as they'd like — or say You can save this article by...
Property owners shouldn't have to prove each and every use of their property creates social benefits greater than social costs You can save this...
Temptation to choose sides will be powerful for Canadian politicians, but it's best if they stay out of it You can save this article by registering...
If protesters had brought trucks, not tents, and honked horns, I suspect few in the McGill community would have objected to their being removed You...
Whether there’s a business case for EVs is a question most of the rest of the world currently seems to be asking. But not Canada You can save this...
Israel is stepping up preparations for a potential all-out war with Hezbollah, as the risk of a devastating new phase in the country’s conflict with...
Conservatives should be wary of international organizations bearing cross-country comparisons of stylized data. Facts, not factoids, please You can...
Ottawa says it wants to unlock Canadians' potential and productivity. For many of these things, it's what's in the way You can save this article by...
For its own good, and for the good of us all, the government of Canada should get out of the housing business, not deeper into it You can save this...
What’s left for Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to say when she stands up in the Commons next Tuesday? You can save this article by registering...
From daycare to denticare to pharmacare to school lunches to housing projects, Ottawa is calling all the shots. Why still have provinces? You can save...
The risks some leaders take have big downsides. Are we quite sure we don't prefer incrementalists who just want to provide good government? You can...
Starting a war against foreign owners of housing isn't a good idea in a country whose own citizens own lots of housing in warmer climes You can save...
We shouldn't have an official government position on whether people watch movies in cinemas or by streaming them at home You can save this article by...
The GST isn't good because it raises tons of revenue. It's good because it does so at much less cost than higher income or corporate taxes You can...
Trudeau should heed his own advice about 'heavy-handed' government and Poilievre should help all Canadians, not just the 'working class' We spend so...
New studies suggest global inequality has fallen faster since 1980 than thought, while U.S. firms did just fine after China's WTO entry “The world...
Vigorous back-and-forths reveal much more than 10-second clips of the Tory leader, or any leader, wrapped in reporters' personal opinions I happened...
Open markets, deregulation, privatization and low tax rates on broad tax bases would serve as well in the 2020s as they did in the 1980s In his 2007...
Buying local the thin edge of the protectionist wedge I got what looked like a nice email from Amazon last week. There were no spelling mistakes, so I...
Can Russia keep holding out against western sanctions and Europe against reduced energy supplies? Joe Biden says he will be announcing a big new...
Because countries actually have to live by whatever they agree to, next week's WTO ministerial won't be as dramatic as last fall's COP28 Elsewhere in...
Gambling ads are everywhere and addiction is on the rise. People need to be free to make bad choices but better at avoiding them My favourite Super...
Canada's most-watched political panel doesn't seem to understand parents' anxiety about not having clear guardrails for kids The country’s...
Most of your costs are labour and most of your labour is tenured, unionized or both. But if a deficit is unsustainable it has to end Like thousands of...
The new policy suffers from the same problems the old did: rent-seeking, copycat duplication and an unreadable future The first IMF working paper of...
A group that promotes nightlife is upset its $3 million grant is being eliminated. Montrealers shouldn't lose sleep over it “Toronto with French”...
Just ask the Russians, Chinese or Iranians whether they'd like to choose their leaders, too Ain’t democracy grand? Fewer than one in 100 Americans...
People shouldn't be allowed to take over parks and public thoroughfares, depriving others of their use In a news release last week Toronto police laid...
Milton Friedman's ideas probably aren't as influential as a new book suggests but we'd have much better public policy if they were In 1914, the poet...
New study using Uber drivers' 'vertical accelerometer' data suggests rough roads are costly for economy Montreal’s roads are under permanent repair,...
Cheating at university — with plagiarism and ChatGPT compositions — continues to evolve. So, too, does cheating detection As Joe Oliver suggests...
If charging your EV is a hassle, that's a reason not to buy one. It's not a reason for the government to have to provide stations New word for me for...
Universities are communities of scholars, not running backs. Students should study, not play spectator sports for money U. S. college football is...
People seemed more willing to challenge governing shibboleths than they have been in some time. That's a good sign for the New Year Being a...
With new measures reducing the rights of English-speakers, and no response from Ottawa, the Quebec separatists may as well have won After roast turkey...
Clips suggest the prime minister's Christmas Day chat will be drearily partisan. Who needs that? It's supposed to be a holiday I wrote last time about...
In 1942, you could see the government taking over the car industry and telling it what to produce. But in peacetime in 2023 that's crazy If you’ve...
The Princeton, Harvard and MIT presidents grilled by Congress over anti-Semitism were hoist by their own hypocrisy In the Christian calendar, Epiphany...
Special measures for oil and gas mean the sacrifice in cutting carbon will be greater in that industry than everywhere else These days an intro...
A new study looks at this worldwide phenomenon and finds we're not actually sure what's going on One of the great evils of patriarchal post-rational...
It’s not actually true that if you work hard and do all the right things, your business is obliged to succeed One thing I liked about early Donald...
Ottawa wants to make life easier for businesses by cutting red tape. But it's also considering mandatory carbon reports. Net? Zero No fewer than four...
Canada is neither Israel nor Palestine. People tied closely to both places live here, with the proportions of each changing over the decades One...
A persistent aversion to subsidizing pro sports Even if you’re not a lifelong Montreal Alouettes fan, as I am, you might have thought that was a...
Voters won't entrust the presidency to a relative unknown The 2024 U.S. presidential race began pretty much the day after 2020’s ended. Some...
Leaving the Canada Pension Plan isn't unpatriotic but a province should have good reason for going. To pursue hands-off, barebones investing is one If...
Basically a list of upcoming bills, Tuesday's speech by Charles III should serve as a template for our own speeches from the throne Elsewhere in FP...
What do you do when supply and demand don't set a price? In his column last Friday commenting in part on my column last Thursday, my friend and...