After months of COVID-19 restrictions causing a full economic shutdown of our country and others worldwide, what will be the result? Our guest today is Fergus Hodgson, Research Associate at Frontier Centre for Public Policy and Director of EconAmericas. WATCH FULL...
Fergus Hodgson
Five ways the Surveillance State is in Hyperdrive
Pandemic Gives Government Perfect Excuse to Monitor Citizens Crises are the perfect breeding ground for authoritarians and social engineers. The extreme measures governments have rolled out to contain the COVID-19 pandemic remind us that fear often trumps any...
What Canada Can Do to Oppose Chinese Tyranny
As Temperature Rises, Great White North Must Side with Trump A Vancouver court is the battleground for two different visions of Canada’s future. The United States wants the extradition of Meng Wanzhou, the top Huawei executive, while Beijing wants Canada to let her...
Canadian Capital Markets Thrive without National Regulator
Advocates for centralized financial regulation have met their match in Canada. She is proof that competition between intranational jurisdictions can foster diverse, prosperous capital markets. In our research paper, “The Federal Takeover of Canada’s Capital Markets,”...
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The Swedish Response to Covid-19 versus Canada
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Draconian, Anti-Science Measures During the Pandemic Has Led to Loss of Trust in Our Institutions
Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is capable of spreading within the body, resulting in an agonizing death. For unknown reasons the fungus is spreading at a rather alarming rate. So far, cases have been confined to long...
Don’t Punish Canadians for China’s Wrongdoings
The first free-trade agreement between China and Canada appears all but dead, derailed by a diplomatic dispute. Insofar as gains from trade are not realized, Canadian consumers and entrepreneurs will suffer. Despite the gravity of Beijing’s many wrongdoings, trade...
The Hidden Cost of a Money-Laundering Crackdown
British Columbia is hardly a tax haven in the mold of Panama; yet organized crime has still established a foothold for laundering, according to some estimates, $1 billion or more per year. Until last year, despite mounting activity, the problem flew under the radar....
Six Takeaways from Venezuela’s Dystopia
No matter how far Venezuela sinks, there remain loyalists who deflect and deny, including plenty in Canada. These dogmatic adherents of authoritarian central planning foretell more Venezuelas to come. Bolivia under Evo Morales and Nicaragua under Daniel Ortega look to...
Real-Time Pay: A Boon for Workers
Your money is worth more to you today than tomorrow. This financial truth—the time value of money—backs the case for real-time pay, a nifty tool for the benefit of workers. Although Canadian unemployment is at a four-decade low, wage growth has stagnated and...
Classifying Uber Drivers as Employees Inhibits Innovation
Uber has brought accessible income and affordable transport to tens of millions worldwide. Its disruptive presence, however, has ruffled Luddites and the self-entitled who prefer antiquated supervision to innovative enterprise. This standoff is playing out in Canada's...
Cities Must Eat Humble Pie, Recognize Cyber Vulnerability
Cybercriminals have caught Canadian municipalities flatfooted. Either our cities get with the times or send more taxpayer money and private data out the door. Cybercrime costs Canada $3.12 billion a year. A portion of that involves ransom payments to cybercriminals...
Why Canadians Are Suffering a Bankruptcy Spike
What can't happen won't happen. If incomes are stagnant while taxes, prices, and interest rates rise, people will fail to pay their debts—as is the case for 120,000 Canadians every year. The long-term build up of urban house prices had already made people financially...
Four Things Canada’s Top Spy Didn’t Say
When David Vigneault addressed the Economic Club, as the nation's intelligence chief, he acknowledged his agency's first rule: "Don't talk." True to form, he said little in his tightly scripted remarks on December 4. What the Canadian Security Intelligence Service...
Crypto Innovation on the Chopping Block
After the United States and the United Kingdom, Canada has the highest number of blockchain-related projects—thanks to a relatively hands-off approach. Paranoid authorities, however, are set to suffocate innovation with poorly targeted regulations. On November 8, the...