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William Watson: Carney takes up the art of the political deal

William Watson: Carney takes up the art of the political deal
27.11.2025 10

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William Watson: Does Carney’s 'round the world every 44 days' really help Canada? 

William Watson: Does Carney’s 'round the world every 44 days' really help Canada? 
25.11.2025 10

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William Watson: Real-time budget spreadsheets reveal a lot

William Watson: Real-time budget spreadsheets reveal a lot
20.11.2025 8

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

William Watson: TikTok politics won’t fix the U.S. fiscal mess
18.11.2025 10

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Carney Searches for Votes to Pass Budget and Avoid Snap Election

Carney Searches for Votes to Pass Budget and Avoid Snap Election
17.11.2025 8

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William Watson: 'Right-sizing' is great but what keeps Ottawa from 'wrong-sizing' again? 

William Watson: 'Right-sizing' is great but what keeps Ottawa from 'wrong-sizing' again? 
13.11.2025 9

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William Watson: The Citizen's guide to where Ottawa can start cutting

07.11.2025 10

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William Watson: Trudeau or Carney — Ottawa still thinks it knows best

The budget says some good things about productivity and growth but in the end Ottawa continues to decide what's favoured and what's not

05.11.2025 2

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William Watson: Politicians should heed, not just praise Reagan trade ad

30.10.2025 7

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William Watson: No kings. And no emperors, either

28.10.2025 7

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William Watson: Why the Jays will win the World Series

23.10.2025 9

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William Watson: Measuring the micro-hurt from Trump’s tariffs

22.10.2025 2

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William Watson: A Nobel for hard truths about economic growth

22.10.2025 3

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William Watson: A Nobel for hard truths about economic growth

17.10.2025 10

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William Watson: Measuring the micro-hurt from Trump’s tariffs

15.10.2025 3

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William Watson: Margaret Thatcher would diss our supply side politics

07.10.2025 7

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William Watson: Photo-radar fines are completely voluntary. Don’t like them? Don’t speed!

02.10.2025 10

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William Watson: New York's loutish fans on par with their president

30.09.2025 10

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William Watson: For Canadian identity's sake, hands off the rouge!

25.09.2025 8

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William Watson: No wonder governments are so bad at picking industrial winners 

23.09.2025 10

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William Watson: Ottawa’s 'non-market' housing policies won’t work

18.09.2025 10

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William Watson: For rampant investment, rule of law beats cabinet rule

16.09.2025 8

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William Watson: No one really knows how much labour to let in

11.09.2025 10

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William Watson: Canada and the U.S. are joined at the hip-hop

09.09.2025 10

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William Watson: Trump is why 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' is a thing

04.09.2025 10

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William Watson: My list of good things Trump has done

02.09.2025 10

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William Watson: Show us the business case for the new mega-projects

28.08.2025 10

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William Watson: Trump may be providing the creative destruction we need

26.08.2025 10

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William Watson: The 'post-American world economy' will be a grim place

21.08.2025 10

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William Watson: Any help for tariff-hit firms needs to be temporary

14.08.2025 10

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William Watson: Economic forecasters, beware Donald Trump’s personality penalty

12.08.2025 10

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William Watson: A lament for the postwar trading system

07.08.2025 10

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William Watson: Tell Canadians: What does the U.S. want and what won’t we give?

05.08.2025 10

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William Watson: AI predicts Trump tariffs will raise U.S. prices

01.08.2025 10

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William Watson: Government-managed trade is sure to fail again

31.07.2025 4

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William Watson: Government-managed trade is sure to fail again

29.07.2025 10

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William Watson: All checks, no balances here in Nastyland

24.07.2025 10

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William Watson: Our better-funded military will need to be more lethal

22.07.2025 10

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William Watson: To save Canada Post, how about supply management?

15.07.2025 10

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William Watson: Liberal MPs won’t rebel, U.K. Labour-style, so cut away, Carney 

10.07.2025 7

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William Watson: We need to be less desperate for a deal with Trump

08.07.2025 8

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William Watson: New research finds that sleep trumps social justice

26.06.2025 10

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William Watson: Canada strong? On farm cartels, Canada pitiful

24.06.2025 10

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William Watson: Whisky, tobacco, butter and Liberal capabilities

12.06.2025 10

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William Watson: Do good pipelines make good nations? 

10.06.2025 10

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William Watson: Economically, COVID was a one-shock stop

03.06.2025 20

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William Watson: Carney’s throne speech ventriloquism was a little too obvious

29.05.2025 10

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William Watson: The throne speech should be short, sweet and backward-looking

27.05.2025 10

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William Watson: Chatbots are changing everything and nothing

22.05.2025 10

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William Watson: Get the Ozempic! Cabinet has grown by almost two-thirds in two months

15.05.2025 10

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