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A harsh truth for the housing crisis: Land shouldn’t be treated like any other property

25.03.2025 10

The Globe and Mail

Claude Lavoie

As we spend to boost the trade-war economy, recall the sins of pandemic spending past

05.03.2025 8

The Globe and Mail

Claude Lavoie

Perhaps an economic union with the U.S. is not a bad idea after all

24.01.2025 6

The Globe and Mail

Claude Lavoie

Disaster costs are overwhelming private insurance. We need a national public insurer

14.01.2025 10

The Globe and Mail

Claude Lavoie

What Justin Trudeau didn’t get about managing the economy

09.01.2025 20

The Globe and Mail

Claude Lavoie

One does not simply gut the public service. Here’s the proper way to make cuts

Canadian flags at a federal building in Ottawa on June 28. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press Claude Lavoie is a contributing columnist for The...

19.12.2024 8

The Globe and Mail

Claude Lavoie

The federal government did not meet a fiscal guardrail. So what?

The Canada flag flies atop the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 5, 2023. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press Claude Lavoie is a...

17.12.2024 10

The Globe and Mail

Claude Lavoie

Trump is an opportunity for Ottawa to push politically difficult, but vital, policies

Former U.S. president Donald Trump, left, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrive for a round table meeting during a NATO leaders meeting...

21.11.2024 3

The Globe and Mail

Claude Lavoie

U.S. election’s greatest fallout: a new immigration challenge for Canada

RCMP officers stop people as they enter Canada via Roxham road on the Canada/U.S. border in Hemmingford, Que., on March 25, 2023. Graham Hughes/The...

06.11.2024 4

The Globe and Mail

Claude Lavoie

Beware the punishing costs of isolationism

Claude Lavoie is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He was director-general of economic studies and policy analysis at the Department...

14.10.2024 4

The Globe and Mail

Claude Lavoie

University should be more expensive. Taxpayers are overly subsidizing it

Students are silhouetted while waiting for a convocation ceremony to begin at Simon Fraser University, in Burnaby, B.C., on June 12. DARRYL...

18.09.2024 2

The Globe and Mail

Claude Lavoie

Ottawa embraces Luddite thinking in forcing civil servants back to the office

PSAC workers and supporters picket in front of President of the Treasury Board Mona Fortier's office in Ottawa on April 21, 2023. Sean...

08.09.2024 3

The Globe and Mail

Claude Lavoie

When fighting invasive aquatic plants, choose your battles

Many lakes in North America are affected in varying degrees by invasive alien plants. An invasive plant is one that colonizes (or has colonized in...

31.07.2024 3

The Conversation

Claude Lavoie

Plantes aquatiques envahissantes : choisir ses combats

En Amérique du Nord, de nombreux lacs sont envahis à des degrés divers par des plantes exotiques au caractère envahissant. Une plante envahissante...

31.07.2024 3

The Conversation - FR

Claude Lavoie

Like it or not, industry disruptions and job losses will be the new reality

People walk in Vancouver’s business district over the lunch hour on April 22, 2022. JENNIFER GAUTHIER/The Globe and Mail Claude Lavoie is a...

25.07.2024 6

The Globe and Mail

Claude Lavoie