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Opinion: Affordable homes require less immigration, not a new housing industry

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Herbert Grubel

Opinion: Cut taxes and stop punishing scale in order to improve productivity

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Ram C. Acharya

Terence Corcoran: Will Mélanie Joly kill the Anglo-Teck mine merger?

Terence Corcoran: Will Mélanie Joly kill the Anglo-Teck mine merger?

Ottawa has no business in the boardrooms of the nation You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. A...

21.11.2025 9

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Terence Corcoran

Jack Mintz: Maybe business leaders should end-run Ottawa on U.S. trade

Jack Mintz: Maybe business leaders should end-run Ottawa on U.S. trade

Big Swiss businesses negotiated a tariff deal after their government had failed. Maybe Canadian businesses should try to end the stalemate You can...

21.11.2025 10

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Jack M. Mintz

Opinion: To spur innovation, reduce health-care transfers

Opinion: To spur innovation, reduce health-care transfers

Governments make better choices when they have to cover all the costs of their decisions. Ottawa should leave health care to the provinces You can...

21.11.2025 10

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Nadeem Esmail And Grady Munro

William Watson: Real-time budget spreadsheets reveal a lot

William Watson: Real-time budget spreadsheets reveal a lot

Putting Ottawa's more than 200 budget and pre-budget measures on a spreadsheet shows where their priorities really are You can save this article by...

20.11.2025 1

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William Watson

Bjorn Lomborg: The West’s best climate bet is fuel research and development

Bjorn Lomborg: The West’s best climate bet is fuel research and development

Spending trillions on reductions hasn't worked. What's needed is more research on making clean, reliable fuels cheap You can save this article by...

20.11.2025 1

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Bjorn Lomborg

Opinion: Why not a Commonwealth free trade deal?

Opinion: Why not a Commonwealth free trade deal?

Its members have a common language and legal tradition that make trade among them a natural. U.S. protectionism now makes it imperative You can...

20.11.2025 8

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Adam Janikowski

Matthew Lau: Libertarians should enlist in the culture war

Matthew Lau: Libertarians should enlist in the culture war

Opposition to government restriction of individual choices is not the same as complete indifference to how others in society behave. Engage! You...

19.11.2025 10

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Matthew Lau

Terence Corcoran: Canada leads UN pact to quash climate debate

Terence Corcoran: Canada leads UN pact to quash climate debate

UN gearing up to shut down science and journalism that do not conform to its doctrine You can save this article by registering for free here. Or...

19.11.2025 2

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Terence Corcoran

Opinion: The WHO wants nine times more money to control tobacco. Don’t pay!

Opinion: The WHO wants nine times more money to control tobacco. Don’t pay!

The organization would discourage non-tobacco products that helped millions of smokers to quit. That's backward policy You can save this article by...

19.11.2025 20

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Ian Irvine

William Watson: TikTok politics won’t fix the U.S. fiscal mess

William Watson: TikTok politics won’t fix the U.S. fiscal mess

A new study shows how stabilizing U.S. public debt requires big tax increases or spending cuts. Are lawmakers capable of such heavy lifting You can...

18.11.2025 10

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William Watson

Philip Cross: The upside of investment bubbles

Philip Cross: The upside of investment bubbles

A new book suggests that despite downsides, investment bubbles at least overcome risk aversion and build useful capital You can save this article...

18.11.2025 10

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Philip Cross

Opinion: Liberal immigration plan needs more clarity

Opinion: Liberal immigration plan needs more clarity

Ottawa is right to stem the flow of newcomers but it should be more transparent about its plans for different categories of migrants You can save...

18.11.2025 1

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Parisa Mahboubi