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Brian Zinchuk: Has Canada Forgotten How To Build Drilling Rigs?
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but while we weren’t looking, a significant portion of our industrial base has been hollowed out. And we will likely live to regret it. While at the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show Sept. 11-12, Mark Scholz, longtime president of...
Who Should Control Canada’s Pension Wealth?
Ottawa wants to compel large pools of Canadian money to be invested in Canada, instead of allowing investment funds to find the best return for Canadian investors. Last week, another scandalous and potentially corrupt string of federal activities popped up. This one...
Unlock BC’s Mining Potential: Cut the Red Tape
BC is at a crucial juncture. It must swiftly create an ideal policy climate to capitalize on the impending critical minerals boom fully. The choice is clear: the province must cut regulatory red tape and create a stable investment climate. If BC resists these...
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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
Switzerland: Competitive and Innovative, Despite Strong Currency, Few Resources
Switzerland is a country that is often overlooked, but it has valuable lessons for other nations, including Canada. Although the two countries have few similarities, Canada’s policymakers could learn from the Alpine state. Switzerland is a high-cost economy...
Unlock BC’s Mining Potential: Cut the Red Tape
BC is at a crucial juncture. It must swiftly create an ideal policy climate to capitalize on the impending critical minerals boom fully. The choice is clear: the province must cut regulatory red tape and create a stable investment climate. If BC resists these changes,...
Any Downturn in Alberta’s Economy Would Inevitably Drag Canada’s Down With It
Is anyone paying attention? Canada is heading straight for an economic iceberg, and the rest of the country doesn’t seem to grasp the gravity of the situation. Alberta – long the engine of Canada’s prosperity thanks to its oil and gas sector – is facing a serious...
Airports in Canada Serve Nobody Well in Current Nebulous Status
Dissatisfaction with the current state of Canada's airports is palpable among the public, airlines, and the federal government. Landing fees, shop and restaurant rental fees, and ‘airport improvement fees’ seem high and uncompetitive versus U.S. airports. This...
This Is Not Capitalism
The word capitalism has no stable definition and should probably be permanently retired. That won’t happen, however, because too many people are invested in its use and abuse. I’m long over trying to push my definition over someone else’s understanding, generally...
Farm For Food Not Fear
Fall harvest is in the storehouse. Now, let’s put away all proposals to cap fertilizer inputs to save the earth. Canadian farmers are ensuring food security, not fueling the droughts, fires, or storms that critics unfairly attribute to them. The Saskatoon-based Global...
Want More Affordable Housing in Canada? Build More Houses
Solving Canada’s housing crisis shouldn’t require more than a single lesson in economics. When prices are high, a free market always responds and supplies more. Yet amidst Canada’s severe problems of housing affordability, this foolproof mechanism is continually...
Provincial Budgetary Shortfalls Show Need for Deep Fiscal Restraint
Manitoba’s provincial government is finding itself in a financial downturn even as it is set to receive an historic 24 per cent bump in its equalization payments. Something is clearly amiss in the land of polar bears, bison, and Slurpees. The problem is the government...
The Furious, Malignant, Insane Destruction of Public Wealth
In every forested country in the world: unmitigated disaster, entirely caused by falsified science out of the United Nations, paid for by the Rockefellers. I am one of the few asserting that not only are the resources of the earth which belong to everyone, being taken...