As this wave of the pandemic winds down, we should ask honest questions about our response to it. Although an accurate assessment of the lockdowns - closing schools and businesses - is months away, we need a plan to respond to a likely second fall wave. The Economist...
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Provincial Governments and Hidden off the Book Debt
The province of Newfoundland and Labrador is staring bankruptcy in the eye. This is what we have heard in the news lately, and to be honest, it is not a fully incorrect assessment. As to the why, there is a mixture of reasons typical for provincial politics....
Game Over for Custodial Crypto Firms in Canada: Regulator Moves to Suffocate Exchanges with Securities Law
Canadian regulators are putting a crosshair on exchanges that hold cryptocurrencies for their clients. This business model, also called a custodial or centralized exchange, is prevalent all over the world but is headed for extinction in Canada, setting back the...
The end of America?
How do societies and cultures end? What causes the death of societies and cultures? It is not always the obvious threats. Today we are struggling with the coronavirus which has unfortunately sickened many and killed some Americans. The deaths are tragic, but so are...
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Dangerous Density: Should Coronavirus Change Our Thinking on City Living?
Urban planners and social critics have long urged that we move to higher density, high rise urban centers, and away from dispersed, low rise, and especially single-family dwellings in the suburbs and exurbs. One of the main arguments in favor is that dense urban...
Challenge To Create a Truly Credible Global Warming Mitigation and Adaptation Plan
In the past few months, we have been treated to the dire and angry imprecations and accusations of the new climate absolutists, who demand total obeisance to their escalating demands and putative authority. Any critics or doubters of catastrophic anthropogenic global...
Before Native Self-Government
Grand Chief Ron Evans wants native self-government. To make it happen, the rules must change.
Smart and Green
Prices, markets, incentives and fiscal responsibility from Canada’s Greens? You better believe it.
An Environmental Policy for the 21st Century
Environmental policy is no longer the purview of statists and interventionists. A new view that puts human needs in the equation is emerging.
Living with Proportional Voting
New Zealand reformed its electoral system, and wishes it hadn’t.
Submission to the Canadian Wheat Board Election Review Panel
If we want the Canadian Wheat Board to be an effective economic agent, its governance must better reflect the interests of its largest producers.
The Still Skeptical Environmentalist Questions Our Priorities
Denmark’s Bjørn Lomborg continues his quest for a world that is both “smart” and “green.”
The Real State of the World: Bjorn Lomborg Powerpoint
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Québec’s Margarine Madness
La Belle Province defies a sensible trade ruling and continues its long history of forbidding coloured margarine.
Incentives or Regulations?
Canada is finally moving towards an environmental policy for farmers that works, because it respects their rights.