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Matthew Lau: To fix city hall, Torontonians need to vote smarter

Matthew Lau: To fix city hall, Torontonians need to vote smarter
23.07.2025 20

Financial Post

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Competition Bureau recommends bureaucratic power grab over airline industry

18.07.2025 2

The Hill Times

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Matthew Lau: There is no shortage of federal activities to cut

Matthew Lau: There is no shortage of federal activities to cut
16.07.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Here's a tip on tipping. You don't have to

Matthew Lau: Here's a tip on tipping. You don't have to
09.07.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: CBC’s very balanced reporting of just one point of view

03.07.2025 8

Financial Post

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National dental care program is likely more costly than advertised

02.07.2025 10

The Hill Times

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Lau: The government's massive childcare plan has only made waitlists longer

27.06.2025 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Matthew Lau: Friedman is still freedom’s happy warrior

25.06.2025 10

Financial Post

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Scrapping net-zero commitments step in right direction for CPPIB

19.06.2025 10

The Hill Times

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Junk Science Week — Matthew Lau: We don’t need climate-change NGOs telling us where to live

19.06.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Canada needs more competition, less competition regulation

11.06.2025 20

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: More evidence that central planning of daycare doesn’t work

04.06.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Toronto the Good's continuing downward slide

28.05.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Trump’s central planning will push people to free-market philosophies

21.05.2025 8

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Like the Leafs, Ontario’s economy has had two lost decades

14.05.2025 9

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Climate-concerned central planning always brings unintended costs

07.05.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: If health care is a right, why can’t we get it when we need it?

30.04.2025 9

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Whatever you do, please vote rationally!

23.04.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Reading, writing and revolution in Ontario schools

17.04.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Ontario budget should ignore Doug Ford’s campaign promises

15.04.2025 10

Financial Post

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LAU: Toronto has eight months to vastly improve its winter performance

09.04.2025 10

Toronto Sun

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LAU: Toronto has eight months to vastly improve its winter performance

09.04.2025 10

Ottawa Sun

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Matthew Lau: Poilievre’s deferred capital gains tax initiative worthy of attention

09.04.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Stop central-planning the auto industry

02.04.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Poilievre's sensible solution to Liberal daycare nightmare

Conservative leader borrows from Harper to give choice back to parents

27.03.2025 10

National Post

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Matthew Lau: We must stop kneecapping the economy

26.03.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Carney is as climate crazy as Guilbeault

19.03.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Trump compounds the existing stupidity on dairy tariffs

13.03.2025 10

National Post

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Matthew Lau: Is Carney just like Justin or lots like Kathleen (Wynne)?

12.03.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Government and union control is ruining daycare in Canada

05.03.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: The free market can protect us from Trump, but only if we let it

04.03.2025 10

National Post

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Matthew Lau: Mark Carney is nothing like Paul Martin

03.03.2025 20

National Post

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Matthew Lau: Trimming foreign aid would be good Canadian policy

26.02.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Carney's spending plan would put even Trudeau to shame

Separating 'operating' and 'capital' budgets is merely a ruse

21.02.2025 10

National Post

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Matthew Lau: Red tape is strangling Canada’s economy

21.02.2025 8

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Political bribes are all cost and little, if any, benefit

19.02.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Minimum wages are even more harmful than we thought

12.02.2025 8

Financial Post

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LAU: TTC could use a healthy dose of private-sector help

06.02.2025 5

Toronto Sun

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LAU: TTC could use a healthy dose of private-sector help

05.02.2025 10

Ottawa Sun

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Matthew Lau: Trying a new flavour of politics

05.02.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Combat Trump protectionism by doing away with our own trade barriers

03.02.2025 10

National Post

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Matthew Lau: To help Canada grow, cut the federal workforce

29.01.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Disaster #1 or Disaster #2 for Liberal leader?

22.01.2025 10

Financial Post

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LAU: Toronto taxpayers are getting mugged

18.01.2025 10

Toronto Sun

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LAU: Toronto taxpayers are getting mugged

18.01.2025 10

Ottawa Sun

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Matthew Lau: The Competition Bureau should leave airlines alone

16.01.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: CRA hates everyone, not just Leafs and Jays

15.01.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Let the market, not competition bureaucrats, police 'greenwashing'

09.01.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Lessons for Canada in Argentina's newly freed markets

Javier Milei's radical liberalization of large parts of Argentina's economy is bearing fruit, with prices stabilized and supplies rising You can...

03.01.2025 4

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Federal tax policy will not be kind to Canadians in 2025

Slated increases in CPP, carbon and capital gains taxes will only worsen the country's growth, productivity and standard of living crises You can...

02.01.2025 4

Financial Post

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