“It takes real skill to derail an industry where Canada has so many competitive advantages,” writes Rick Rule regarding energy markets. The chief executive of Sprott US Holdings, a natural-resource brokerage, says the barrier is politics, while Canadian firms,...
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You Don’t Have to Be Fascist to Oppose Immigration
There are plenty of good reasons to oppose immigration into Canada. Presumably a man of the Left, Environmentalist David Suzuki opposes immigration: “Canada is full! Although it’s the second largest country in the world,” he says, “our useful area has been reduced....
Should Toronto’s Lester B. Pearson International Airport Be Sold?
For now, Ottawa’s plan to sell Canada’s airports appears to have been shelved. That’s too bad. Privatizing Toronto’s Pearson International Airport could help pay for a needed rail link to the suburbs and surrounding cities, and make the airport more competitive...
Alberta’s Carbon-Tax Repeal Already Bearing Fruits
Residents Have Enjoyed Immediate Cost Reduction Utopian legislators in the United States often look with rose-tinted glasses upon the Canadian approach to everything, from higher education and medical care to global warming and international affairs. Since Canadians...
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Wealth Taxes Are a Non-New, Pernicious and Invidious Proposal From the Usual Greedy Suspects
Recently, there has been an increasing clamour from some circles for imposing a wealth tax upon Canadians. The usual government-expanding social ‘democratic’ pressure and interest groups are especially enthused by the idea and also claim it is ‘popular’ among the...
What Comes Next after Bitcoin Mainstreaming?
Underneath all the media brouhaha and institutional focus on bitcoin, a struggle is brewing in the crypto world: which altcoin will pick up the baton? A fierce competition is underway for the podium, with Ethereum having a clear first-mover advantage. Bitcoin, as...
Kiwi Fruit for America
Once upon a time, in a country way, way down under, the government dismantled its system of agricultural subsidies and supports. Initially, cries of outrage and disbelief were heard from farmers all across the land. For more than 20 years, farm assistance had steadily...
Canada’s Cities Need to Close Performance-Information Gap
Full accrual accounting, world-class asset management and robust public disclosure cannot come fast enough to Canada’s cities.
The Best Laid Plans of Govt Planners Usually Screw Up Your Life
It is safe to say economist Randal O'Toole is an expert in many of the things that have caused Pittsburgh and other cities great pain -- government planning, government mass-transit systems and government attempts to shape or contain the redevelopment of cities. A...
Hot World? Blame Cities.
It's all the suburbs' fault. You know, everything – traffic congestion, overweight kids, social alienation. Oh, and lest we forget, global warming and rising energy costs, too. That latest knock against the burbs has caught on widely. With their multiplying McMansions...
Hydro-Québec is Worth $130B — So Sell It!
A Quebec commentator sketches out how selling Hydro Quebec would eliminate that province’s debt and allow the province to slash income taxes by 33%.
Might be a Good Entre to the Ontario PCs
The way most people in Canada and the West live – in suburbs, pejoratively called sprawl – has become the target of urban planning. Strong, even draconian, land restrictions have been introduced in a number of metropolitan areas. Toronto has been among the more...
Rubble to Riches
Toronto can eliminate its deficit by selling off unneeded city assets, such as highways and parking garages. Chicago is showing the way.
The Portland Epistles: More Delusion
Wendell Cox explodes popular misconceptions about Portland’s Smart Growth Model.
Social Assistance That Really Helps
The latest changes to social assistance in Manitoba emphasize work as the key to moving from welfare to independence. But does this plan recognize the real obstacles faced by the poor and those who advocate for them?