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Why Canada is losing the multi-billion-dollar technology standards game

Why Canada is losing the multi-billion-dollar technology standards game

Earlier this month, I was invited to the annual Bridge Summit hosted by the Via Licensing Alliance in San Francisco. Via, which describes itself as...

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Louis Carbonneau

We need a serious fiscal anchor, less debt and a cautious budget

We need a serious fiscal anchor, less debt and a cautious budget

Around the world, borrowing costs are rising, growth is only middling, economic risks are tilted to the downside and, after six years of global...

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Kevin Lynch

Terence Corcoran: Market coherence missing in Cohere investment

Terence Corcoran: Market coherence missing in Cohere investment

Before we get to Ottawa’s interventionist investment in the Toronto-based AI tech company Cohere Inc., a brief but related observation is warranted...

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Terence Corcoran

Peter MacKay: Canada needs more than promises on defence procurement. We need results

Peter MacKay: Canada needs more than promises on defence procurement. We need results

As we prepare to gather at cenotaphs across our nation and collectively pause to pay tribute with poppies and prayers, it is a good time to reflect on...

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Peter Mackay

Peter MacKay: Canada needs more than promises on defence procurement. We need results

Peter MacKay: Canada needs more than promises on defence procurement. We need results

As we prepare to gather at cenotaphs across our nation and collectively pause to pay tribute with poppies and prayers, it is a good time to reflect on...

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Peter Mackay

William Watson: Green shoots of hope among fall’s goblins and other horrors

William Watson: Green shoots of hope among fall’s goblins and other horrors

Fall is not a hopeful season. The word itself — fall — is not hopeful. In most of Canada the leaves flare up wonderfully before … falling....

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William Watson

Terence Corcoran: Bank of Canada is back on track

Terence Corcoran: Bank of Canada is back on track

For several years the leading issue on the minds of Canadians has been the rising cost of living, with food and housing emerging as the priorities on...

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Terence Corcoran

Matthew Lau: Kids must keep typing, for their own good and everyone else’s

Matthew Lau: Kids must keep typing, for their own good and everyone else’s

The kids will not be all right. Not if they don’t learn to type, that is. And they may not. There is evidence that among Generation Alpha, roughly...

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Matthew Lau

Swapping one economic dependency for another

Swapping one economic dependency for another

What is Canada getting itself into with the “ever-closer association of Canada to the EU, short of full membership itself” that was announced at...

previous day 1

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Tammy Nemeth

Terence Corcoran: This Halloween of voter democracy will not be the last

Terence Corcoran: This Halloween of voter democracy will not be the last

Are we done? Probably not, but after months of being captured by the Halloweenish rovings of the “Phantom of Democracy” it would sure be nice to...

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Terence Corcoran

Why the merger of Emera and Canadian Utilities makes sense for Canada

Why the merger of Emera and Canadian Utilities makes sense for Canada

Canada is having a moment. Over the past year, the national conversation has shifted from whether we can build big things to how quickly we can get...

previous day 1

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Scott Balfour

Stephen Tapp: Canada's low productivity is making young people less optimistic about the economy

Stephen Tapp: Canada's low productivity is making young people less optimistic about the economy

Productivity growth has slowed across most advanced economies. In Canada, in the immediate postwar period, output per hour worked doubled in just 18...

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Stephen Tapp

Canada needs drones, but we have to integrate them the right way

Canada needs drones, but we have to integrate them the right way

There is growing enthusiasm about uncrewed (or autonomous) systems and their potential to address some of Canada’s most acute military capacity...

previous day 1

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Mark Norman

William Watson: What I’m hoping for in the federal budget and elsewhere

William Watson: What I’m hoping for in the federal budget and elsewhere

Budget hopes. What am I hoping for in today’s federal budget? What I always hope for: A credible plan to balance the budget and reduce the...

previous day 10

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William Watson

Guess who will pay for high-speed rail cost overruns?

Guess who will pay for high-speed rail cost overruns?

The federal government’s proposed Alto high-speed rail line to connect Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City is still in the early stages of...

previous day 2

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Wendell Cox

Carney budget follows same playbook we have seen for more than decade

Carney budget follows same playbook we have seen for more than decade

On Thursday, the Carney government tabled its second budget since taking office in March 2025. Despite Prime Minister Mark Carney’s claim that his...

previous day 10

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Jake Fuss

We give the federal budget a ‘D’

We give the federal budget a ‘D’

For anyone hoping that the federal budget would signal a much-needed turn in economic and fiscal policy, the very appearance of the document is a...

previous day 1

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Don Drummond And William Robson. Special To Financial Post

B.C.’s unique health-care opportunity

B.C.’s unique health-care opportunity

Two promises in its election platform could help British Columbia’s new government improve health care for patients and become a policy leader in...

previous day 1

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Colin Craig And Bacchus Barua

We need to get serious about Canada’s truancy crisis

We need to get serious about Canada’s truancy crisis

Of all the skills required to graduate high school, showing up on time ought to be the easiest. The current standard for Ontario students is that they...

previous day 1

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Christina Park

William Watson: Markets will help NEETs more than governments can

William Watson: Markets will help NEETs more than governments can

For Canadians of a certain age, the term “Neet” evokes memories of TV commercials for the cream depilatory of that name, though I learn from...

previous day 10

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William Watson

Matthew Lau: Now even the NDP worries about Ontario’s fiscal position

Matthew Lau: Now even the NDP worries about Ontario’s fiscal position

Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government has wandered so far into the fiscal wilderness it is making even the NDP opposition — yes, the NDP!...

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Matthew Lau

We still give the federal budget a 'D'

We still give the federal budget a 'D'

Having had the weekend to think about it, we’re even more convinced last week’s federal budget deserves a dismal grade. In addition to our...

previous day 4

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Don Drummond And William Robson

Jack Mintz: EU 'partnership' is not the answer to our U.S. problems

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30.10.2026 20

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Jack M. Mintz

Terence Corcoran: Bank of Canada is back on track

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30.10.2026 20

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Terence Corcoran

Opinion: Does Ottawa even care about getting value for taxpayers’ money?

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29.10.2026 20

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John Lester

William Watson: Ottawa needs to inventory its walking-dead policies

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29.10.2026 20

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William Watson

Lawrence Solomon: Government's nanny-state role in demographic decline

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28.10.2026 30

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Lawrence Solomon

Terence Corcoran: Canada's First Nations make another power grab

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28.10.2026 30

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Terence Corcoran

Opinion: A Nobel for recognizing complexity in economic science

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27.10.2026 30

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Jonathan Vitti And Daniel Dufort

Matthew Lau: How much will taxpayers lose in budget roulette?

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27.10.2026 30

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Matthew Lau

Philip Cross: A Nobel Prize in economics for flawed foundations

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27.10.2026 30

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Philip Cross

Opinion: Mark Carney’s climate ambitions still threaten Canada’s economy

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24.10.2026 20

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Gina Pappano

William Watson: A house repeatedly riven by secessionism cannot stand

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24.10.2026 20

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William Watson

Opinion: The leading cause of 'heat poverty' on Canada’s reserves? Politics

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23.10.2026 20

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Guy Lonechild And Shannon Joseph

Terence Corcoran: Market freedom should be our ‘national interest’

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23.10.2026 20

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Terence Corcoran

Opinion: Latest changes help but project reviews need still more certainty

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22.10.2026 20

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Kate Koplovich

Opinion: Ditching ethanol mandates would be an easy trade win for Canada

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22.10.2026 20

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Ron Barmby

William Watson: Is an Economist cover peak Carney?

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22.10.2026 20

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William Watson

Opinion: We need to focus on the best ways to help the poor. Climate isn’t one

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21.10.2026 30

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Indermit Gill And Bjorn Lomborg

Terence Corcoran: Maybe Carney really wants to take over Stelco

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21.10.2026 20

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Terence Corcoran

Joe Oliver: Two questions Mark Carney needs to answer

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20.10.2026 30

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Joe Oliver

Matthew Lau: We taxpayers are on the wrong side of the money flows

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20.10.2026 30

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Matthew Lau

Opinion: Trump’s tariffs hurt Ontario but don’t explain its economic decline

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19.10.2026 30

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Jake Fuss

Terence Corcoran: Stelco caught in an unwinnable trade war

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16.10.2026 50

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Terence Corcoran

Jack Mintz: We need to fix mining taxation

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16.10.2026 30

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Jack M. Mintz

Opinion: Ottawa needs to stop fuelling the underground nicotine market

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15.10.2026 20

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Jasmine Odlin

William Watson: Carney should take his own no-meddling advice

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15.10.2026 30

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William Watson

Philip Cross: Governments' bigger bite out of Canadian incomes

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14.10.2026 30

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Philip Cross

Terence Corcoran: Is Carney's Canada joining the UN war on inequality?

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14.10.2026 30

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Terence Corcoran

Matthew Lau: More taxes, less civilized society in both B.C. and Toronto

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13.10.2026 30

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Matthew Lau