The COVID-19 crisis has brought back to the forefront the idea of a universal basic income (UBI) or guaranteed annual income (GAI). In response to the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 restrictions, the Canadian government has implemented the Canada Emergency...
Paraphrasing a remark by American philosopher Nicholas Murray Butler in 1931, John Newbern once said: “People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened.” Each of those classes is...
The federal government is preparing a budget to be unleashed upon the public and the financial markets, sometime in March. Aside from being terrified at the prospect of a huge amount of debt being taken on, yet again, by our erstwhile servants on Parliament Hill,...
A dispute and court case from northern Ontario may help us understand ongoing tensions over the lobster fisheries on the East Coast. The war over Indigenous fishing rights has played out before in Canadian history. As we reflect on recent violence in Nova Scotia over...
The hasty, defeatist and craven withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan in August has compelled the so-called “civilized” Western nations and their leaders to confront the failures and errors of the past 20 years, which resemble those of earlier conflicts....
Travel and work over the past two years have brought me to many different jurisdictions. What continues to strike me is the way the responses to COVID-19 have been varied, arbitrary and often draconian. I look back at Canada and see raging debates over mask mandates,...
Forbes has asked a good question with this article.
A dollar goes a lot further today in inflation adjusted terms than it did 20 years ago.
Austerity isn’t easy, and when Canada had to slash its deficits in the 1990s it looks like part of what that meant was a real reduction in the number of people employed by government across the country.
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What would happen if Canada started building prisons for long term prisoners in the Arctic?
As indicated by the Honorable member from Regina-Wascana in his comments, the Port of Churchill is a vital element of national infrastructure and component of asserting national security in the Arctic. He receives no argument in that assertion from me. I agree that...
Debt-strapped Greece is about to hold an epic yard sale. Selling off government goodies, the rescuers hope, will raise €50 billion (about $71 billion) by 2015. Every euro drummed up that way is a euro that Germany and other healthy countries don’t need to lend.
True to his name, the new International Trade Minister, Ed Fast, was quick out of the starting blocks following his elevation from the backbenches to the front line of the Harper cabinet.
They’ve been in office for more than five years and now, courtesy of a majority victory, will remain there for another four years. Unless something quite unexpected happens, they should win re-election, giving their party an unbroken run of about 14 years in power, its longest stretch since the late 19th century.