Canada’s great divide follows along the rugged border that separates Alberta and British Columbia. However, Canada has another Great Divide in addition to the geographical one. The trial of Gerald Stanley, for the killing of Colten Boushie, brought into sharp focus...
We will begin today’s article with a quiz. So, pencils out please, and answer the following question: what famous personality was described by an unadmiring biographer as “a thieving, fanatical Albanian dwarf”? I’ll give you the answer in a paragraph or two as we...
Taxpayer handouts to private corporations are always thorny. They inevitably mean that another business' tax dollars go straight to the pockets of their competition. This distortion also means that dollars better spent elsewhere by taxpayers, or even by governments,...
A steadily increasing number of successful Canadians are proud of their Aboriginal heritage, but they have integrated into the Canadian economy and society. Political actor Wab Kinew, writer Tomson Highway, and Senator Murray Sinclair come to mind. Many ethnic and...
For standards of living to grow, productivity growth must be strong and continually renewed. That is one notion that nearly all economists can agree on. So, it is not surprising that politicians scramble to discover new or not-so-new ways to boost productivity growth....
Behavioural psychologist Robert Epstein believes Google can and does influence voters and that research teams in Canada and elsewhere need to monitor how users are being swayed. Epstein, the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today and founder of the American...
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Ever since revolutionaries toppled the French crown in 1789, the political left has asserted that the solution to shrinking poverty is to announce good intentions and follow up with government confiscation of private assets. The latest would-be defender to join...
Author, gadfly, pundit and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers up more of his unusual, sardonic take on the failings of the modern world.
Jane Jacobs took her pen to my draft and crossed out one phrase, then another. "This isn't clear," she said in her matter-of-fact way, writing in her revisions. "And why isn't the post office mentioned? Or railways?" It was 1994 and I had brought Jane a fund-raising...
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), adopted at a summit in 2000, are extremely ambitious, especially for least developed countries. They include halving the proportion of people living in extreme poverty (i.e., on less than a dollar a day) between...
Federal election irregularities in a riding heavily populated by aboriginals are a reminder that democratic values require more than just lip service. Such problems need to be openly and clearly addressed.
Paul Martin was putty in the hands of the Chiefs, but Stephen Harper might prove different.
OTTAWA -- Here is Prime Minister Paul Martin, in stump speeches and during Monday's debate, defining Canadians' options in the federal election: "Stephen Harper's goal of a fend-for-yourself Canada or my vision of a country in which we strive together toward a common...
A farmer agrees with our take on supply management . . .