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We don’t lack ideas in Canada—we bury them in red tape
Dr Sylvain Charlebois: Canada does not need less regulation. It needs better regulation—frameworks that are adaptive, risk-based, and…
May 4, 2026
‘Risk-averse’ Carney avoiding stronger stance on Iran war over fears of Trump backlash and CUSMA fallout, say some Liberal MPs
The Hill Times: Most caucus members are not pressing the issue, recognizing that Canada has limited leverage and…
May 4, 2026
Mark Carney compares his sovereign wealth fund to Norway’s. Canadians are smart enough to see it’s far worse
Luke Savage/Toronto Star: In stark contrast, Carney says that the government’s Canada Strong Fund will use public money to “invest…
May 4, 2026
Your browsing history could soon set your grocery bill — and Canada isn’t ready for it
Jake Okechukwu Effoduh/The Conversation: Surveillance pricing is different. Where dynamic pricing responds to market conditions, surveillance pricing responds…
May 3, 2026
Solomon an ‘ambassador’ for AI, with commercialization among major challenges in modernized AI strategy, say experts
The Hill Times: Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon is becoming Canada’s “face of AI,” and is doing well…
May 3, 2026
Goldstein: China – our ‘strategic partner’ and greatest security threat
Lorrie Goldstein/Toronto Sun: It’s alarming that Prime Minister Mark Carney, citing China as a “strategic partner,” has agreed…
May 3, 2026
Mark Carney fiddles while Canada burns
Andrew MacDougall/Toronto Star: Is this it? Is this all a galaxy brain in control of a government within…
May 3, 2026
Cody Mallette: Notwithstanding clause was price of Charter. Courts must not rewrite it
National Post: The 1981 constitutional compromise that gave Canada the Charter is now at risk of judicial revision…
May 3, 2026
Canada’s new sovereign wealth fund: What Ottawa can learn from Alberta
CBC: There were high hopes when the Alberta government launched the Heritage Savings Trust Fund in 1976 to…
May 3, 2026
Consumers snared in disputes increasingly being pressed to sign non-disclosure agreements
The Globe and Mail: “These types of anti-free-speech clauses spread virally,” said Harold Geller, an Ottawa-based financial loss…
May 2, 2026
Josh Dehaas: Canada about to repeat Australia’s online censorship nightmare
Josh Dehaas/National Post: Miller’s comments suggest Ottawa is ignoring Australia’s eSafety disaster and reviving Trudeau-era online speech regulation…
May 2, 2026
Canada’s $3.4 billion food disruption
Dr Sylvain Charlebois: We learned this week that Apotex Inc., Canada’s largest drug manufacturer, has received approval from…
May 2, 2026
Thoughts on CUSMA review and negotiating with Trump
John Weekes/Policy Magazine: Other parties, including the U.K., the EU and Japan, with a lesser stake in the…
May 2, 2026
Lorne Gunter: Trump’s pipeline approval for Canadian oil about local politics
Lorne Gunter/Edmonton Journal: But even if the line is completed quickly by pipeline standards, it is still unlikely…
May 2, 2026
Althia Raj: Mark Carney has forgotten who helped get him elected
Althia Raj/Toronto Star: If one thing is clear from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s economic update this week, it’s that he’s…
May 2, 2026
Canada should back away from carbon capture and storage and focus on infrastructure like pipelines
Martha Hall Findlay/The Globe and Mail: The Pathways CCUS project would have the federal and provincial governments (which…
May 1, 2026
Andrew Coyne: Canada Strong Fund a solution no one can describe, for a problem no one can identify
Andrew Coyne/The Globe and Mail: It’s been nearly a week, and we are still no closer to knowing…
May 1, 2026
What Canadians are grudgingly learning from Trump’s undiplomatic ambassador
Politico: “I don’t do ‘diplomatic speak’ very well,” Hoekstra said in a wide-ranging interview Thursday. “I think when…
May 1, 2026
Why salary of $115K isn’t enough to purchase house in some parts of Canada
CBC: Since 2004, lower-end new home prices have risen by 265%, while young dual-earner incomes grew 76%…
May 1, 2026
Sam Cooper: Canadian media risks complicity in floor-crossing ‘conspiracy’
Sam Cooper/The Bureau: I did an op-ed for The Bureau last year noting Brian Lilley’s excellent reporting that…
April 30, 2026