Pandemic Gives Government Perfect Excuse to Monitor Citizens Crises are the perfect breeding ground for authoritarians and social engineers. The extreme measures governments have rolled out to contain the COVID-19 pandemic remind us that fear often trumps any...
Hites Ahir: You recently released the 16th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: 2020. Tell us about the housing affordability measure used in the survey. Wendell Cox: Demographia uses the “median multiple,” which is the median house price...
There are those who believe we shouldn’t criticize our political (and other) leaders during a crisis. The Canadian way is to get through it first, then hold inquiries and, many years and millions of dollars later, we will know who failed in their leadership tasks and...
As we hunker down, it’s hard to remember what pre-virus Canada was like. Canada’s transportation system was then paralyzed by a collection of climate and Indigenous activists, while our Prime Minister was away. Although those issues seemed very important at the time,...
In recent days, reports, studies and analyses have implicitly shown that the essential character of state-owned enterprises, including Canadian Crown corporations, makes it impossible for these entities to have true independence of mission, strategy, governance or...
A month ago, the Chronicle Herald published an article in which I argued that the Atlantic Canada economy is unsustainable and that the region has become a major burden on Canada. The starkest evidence of that is that other Canadians are obliged to contribute $6,400...
So, I have made it at last! There have been two previous occasions in my life when I was close to a Nobel Prize (thereby hangs a tale), now it has arrived. I expect the cheque in the post any time, plus an invitation to the awards ceremony. I am one of the 35,000...
The poor suffer the most collateral damage when policy is designed for the few, not the many.
The Frontier Centre, in partnership with the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies in Halifax, presents an AIMS study rating the 2006/07 budget performance of the western provinces and Ontario ranking fiscal health, budget transparency and budget impacts.
This cover story in the April 28th, 1975 issue of Newsweek worries about global cooling not warming.
Energy starved Africans should be aghast at LIVE EARTH’s bizarre message.
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper lamented the rise of "repressive economics" in Latin America the other day, he cited specifically the class-warfare politics that we normally associate with deranged socialist states - such as, most flamboyantly, Venezuela....
Our leaders have long been enthusiastic promoters of New Zealand as a leader in world opinion. But they normally refer to political opinion. We may well be trend-setters in giving the vote to women, cradle to grave welfare, and even in rejecting nuclear weapons, but...
What if humanity disappeared tomorrow? According to Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us, in an interview with Scientific American, nature would reclaim the planet awfully quickly. In the event of an ecumenical rapture or a 12 Monkeys-style plague, Manhattan's...
It’s time to let Africa imagine its own future.