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Philip CrossFinancial Post |
When growth fails, politics revert to zero-sum games, where some people can gain only if others lose You can save this article by registering for free...
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...
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...
Government meddling in the marketplace reduces competition and slows the creative destruction — capitalism’s secret sauce You can save this...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Use of the notwithstanding clause to override court judgments was originally meant to be infrequent. But then judicial activism exploded You can save...
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...
The danger, as he seems to understand, is to aim for theoretical coherence, not popular acceptance by reducing rates and simplifying rules You can...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
They drive exports, productivity, incomes and government revenue. It's time we stopped being embarrassed about them You can save this article by...
It is obviously bad economics, so much so that it is hard to treat it as a serious attempt at coherent economic policymaking
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...
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...
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...
More traditional left-liberals are trying to untangle themselves from woke identity politics, which voters don't like Conservatives have always...
It's remarkable how much our international reputation has faded over the past 10 years, both diplomatically and economically It is remarkable how much...
New book reminds us how Friedman still dominates economics, which means his ideas will survive today's descent into populism Jennifer Burns’ new...