Welcome to our new economy of shortages, comrades: Philip Cross in the Financial Post
Shortages imply that inflation is much greater than the official measures suggest, writes Philip Cross in the Financial Post. Below ...
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If oil and gas are dead, why are exports booming? Philip Cross in the Financial Post
Despite all the hype surrounding electricity exports, they earn less in a month than oil and gas generate every day, ...
An age of global realignments: The Indo-Pacific
OTTAWA, ON (October 11, 2021): In cooperation with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute hosted a closed-door Strategic Dialogue on the ...
The Caisse should focus on Quebecers’ pensions, not ESG: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post
Quebec pension fund is pulling the rug out from under profitable fossil-fuel companies yet ignoring other ESG issues, writes Jack ...
A Just Transition Means Protecting the Most Vulnerable from the Coming Energy Crisis: Heather Exner-Pirot for Inside Policy
Focused only on the supply side, we have been suffering under the delusion that the consequences of our climate policies ...
Biden sells twisted fiscal concepts: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post
Biden has a flair for poorly thought-out proposals, including blessing the billionaires’ capital gains tax, writes Jack Mintz in the ...
Persistent lockdowns, poor business investment drive surprise drop in GDP: New Quarterly Economic Report
OTTAWA, ON (September 28, 2021): The second quarter of 2021 saw an unexpected contraction of Canada’s economy, shrinking by 0.3 ...
We’re about to remember that energy crises are bad things: Heather Exner-Pirot for iPolitics
We need to accept that the world needs a reliable supply of oil and gas until we can build new ...
How we lost our corporate tax edge: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post
The public might think the rich and powerful pay the corporate tax but in fact the opposite is typically true, ...
Canada’s pandemic-related job losses and debt accumulation the worst among peers, in exchange we got only middling results combatting COVID: MLI’s COVID Misery Index
OTTAWA, ON (September 17, 2021): As Canada votes Monday in an election that will be pivotal for a return to ...
MLI COVID Misery Index Update – Election Edition Analysis
View the full, updated COVID Misery Index (CMI) here. Download the data for the September 17 update here. For more information, including ...
Poor policy is what’s causing slower economic growth: Philip Cross in the Financial Post
When the main problem is that governments have adopted environmental and redistributive policies that hamper economic growth, Canadians should not ...
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Time for an intervention – an urgent call to end “gender-affirming” treatments for children: J. Edward Les for Inside Policy
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The Governor General deserves better, but we deserve impartiality: Philippe Lagassé for Inside Policy
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Conservatives can reject destructive left-wing policies and still take climate change seriously: Brian Lee Crowley in the National Post
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Success assured? Appraising the Canadian-led Enhanced Forward Presence battlegroup in Latvia
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Widespread shortages, skyrocketing costs: the growing calamity that is government-controlled child care
