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Philip Cross: How big things could get done, even in Canada

A recent book on big projects that go bad has uncomfortably many examples from Canada. We need to downsize ambitions, processes and costs You can save...

07.11.2024 9

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Philip Cross: Young people are embracing conservatism. What does that mean for the future?

Part is reaction to an economy that's not providing the jobs and income they want. But part may by a cyclical swing against the left You can save this...

29.10.2024 10

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Philip Cross: Our downward interventionist economic spiral

Government meddling in the marketplace reduces competition and slows the creative destruction — capitalism’s secret sauce You can save this...

11.10.2024 10

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Philip Cross: R.I.P., Canadian carbon tax

With both the federal and B.C. NDP backing away from carbon taxation, it's clear the tax is dead politically You can save this article by registering...

20.09.2024 10

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Philip Cross: Russia’s moral bankruptcy means capitalism won't take root

Capitalism's core is empathy, not greed. Businesses need to care what people want. Eight decades of communism have destroyed that in Russia You can...

13.09.2024 10

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Philip Cross: China’s growth model is faltering. Canada best look to the U.S. again

Like the old Soviet Union, Japan, and Brazil, China seemed to have discovered a different growth model. But that growth has waned You can save this...

30.08.2024 10

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Philip Cross: What Pierre Poilievre can learn from Liz Truss

The former British PM ran into heavy opposition from the civil service and the Bank of England. A prime minister Poilievre likely would, too You can...

20.08.2024 10

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Philip Cross: Objections notwithstanding, the constitutional clause is OK

Use of the notwithstanding clause to override court judgments was originally meant to be infrequent. But then judicial activism exploded You can save...

09.08.2024 10

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Philip Cross: Flawed emissions data in means flawed emissions policy out

How you count emissions affects whether you reach true 'net zero' sooner or later and what the best energy sources are for getting there You can save...

30.07.2024 10

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Philip Cross: Poilievre learns from previous eras' mistakes on tax reform

The danger, as he seems to understand, is to aim for theoretical coherence, not popular acceptance by reducing rates and simplifying rules You can...

12.07.2024 10

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Philip Cross: Canada's 'energy blindness' must end

A flawed energy strategy means our country now has to import electricity You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you...

05.07.2024 10

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Junk Science Week — Philip Cross: Killer heat doesn't boost mortality rate

Your hernia has a 10 times greater chance of killing you than a heat wave does You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if...

28.06.2024 10

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Philip Cross: Canada a no-show on Time’s list of most influential companies

Why our investment and productivity are lagging and our firms don't rate is clear: taxes and regulations that discourage business success You can save...

19.06.2024 30

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Philip Cross: The figures show Canada needs more LNG projects

The economic benefits from building facilities and exporting gas at a premium price are substantial and it helps to reduce coal use in Asia You can...

05.06.2024 10

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Philip Cross: More turmoil at Statistics Canada

The agency needs to ditch woke, trim its budget, end serial resignations at the top and get back to collecting good, trustworthy data You can save...

30.05.2024 10

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Cross & Mintz: Resources are still our golden goose. We need to protect them

They drive exports, productivity, incomes and government revenue. It's time we stopped being embarrassed about them You can save this article by...

02.05.2024 40

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Philip Cross: Chrystia Freeland delivers an equal mix of bad economics and bad politics

It is obviously bad economics, so much so that it is hard to treat it as a serious attempt at coherent economic policymaking

16.04.2024 7

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Philip Cross: Last-gasp defence can't save the carbon tax

Fans of the tax lost credibility early when they bought estimates that B.C.'s carbon tax had cut emissions a lot with very little pain You can save...

10.04.2024 10

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Philip Cross: Bank of Canada's Carolyn Rogers is right. Weak productivity is a national crisis

The one sure way to kill the Canadian experiment is to let living standards lag those in the U.S. so our best and brightest move south You can save...

04.04.2024 9

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Philip Cross: No taxation without representation? Canadian judges aren't buying that

More and more they're telling elected governments how they must spend their money, violating a principle dating back to Magna Carta in 1215 The...

14.03.2024 20

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Philip Cross: Conservatives warned that wokeness was coming. Liberals didn't listen

More traditional left-liberals are trying to untangle themselves from woke identity politics, which voters don't like Conservatives have always...

22.02.2024 10

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Philip Cross: From swaggering to staggering: Canada’s decline into irrelevance

It's remarkable how much our international reputation has faded over the past 10 years, both diplomatically and economically It is remarkable how much...

31.01.2024 10

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Philip Cross: Milton Friedman, keeper of the conservative flame

New book reminds us how Friedman still dominates economics, which means his ideas will survive today's descent into populism Jennifer Burns’ new...

16.01.2024 10

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