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New Fraser report: Average Canadian family spent 42.3% of income on taxes—more than on housing, food and clothing combined
The average Canadian family now spends more of its income on taxes (42.3%) than it does on basic…
July 24, 2025
The Crown versus the truckers
WSJ: What is it about the Covid protesters that causes Canada to so overreact?…
July 24, 2025
Ankesh Chandaria: A Canadian blueprint for trustworthy AI governance
Building this infrastructure goes beyond managing risk and promoting innovation. It’s about earning trust. Solomon rightly puts trust…
July 24, 2025
Jamil Jivani: China is not the answer
The answer to dependence on the US cannot be dependence on China. Indeed, just as we don’t want…
July 24, 2025
Eric Lombardi: Politicians want you to forget about Canada’s biggest socioeconomic challenge. Yes, it’s still housing
Canada’s politicians are quietly relieved the headlines have moved on from housing. It was never an easy problem…
July 23, 2025
AI can’t just be ‘slapped on the current system’ to modernize procurement process, says AI research chair
“It’s going to be some form of re-engineering those processes, modifying those processes, streamlining them,” said Adegboyega… “The…
July 23, 2025
Andrew Coyne: What makes supply management so uniquely vile? Let me count the ways
The costs of supply management aren’t just borne by consumers generally, but fall most heavily on the poorest…
July 23, 2025
Andrew Caddell: Why we must defend supply management
If supply management were sacrificed to satisfy Donald Trump, life in rural Canada would be turned upside down…
July 23, 2025
John Ivison: Making Canada investable again will take more than Carney’s dreams
“This country still has a reputation as a difficult place to build things in a timely and predictable…
July 23, 2025
TERRAZZANO: Ignore fearmongering union bosses and cut the bureaucracy
The federal bureaucracy cost taxpayers $40 billion in 2016. The bureaucracy now costs taxpayers about $70 billion. That’s…
July 22, 2025
So much for ‘Canada strong’: Carney cuts to public service a brutal trade-off
The playbook for these “efficiency” cuts is clear: make them big, do them fast and never get into…
July 22, 2025
Carney’s ‘Elbows Up’ bluff: No deal, no strategy, and no end to Trump’s tariffs
Mark Carney ran for Prime Minister on an “elbows up” promise to take the fight directly to Washington…
July 22, 2025
B.C. Ferries contract to China: We’re not just outsourcing ships. We’re outsourcing opportunity…
Opinion: Handing B.C. Ferries contract to China may save money in the short term. But long term, it’s…
July 21, 2025
Leaked audio of CBC disciplinary meeting with former TV host Travis Dhanraj
‘It shows that the CBC corporation has a disturbing level of control over their journalists,’ says Travis Dhanraj’s…
July 21, 2025
AI won’t kill journalism — but it will kill lazy journalism
Let’s get one thing straight: artificial intelligence is not going to kill journalism. But it is going to…
July 21, 2025
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith talks anti-conservative bias, CBC,Travis Dhanraj
In the debut episode of The Paikin Podcast, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith sits down with Steve Paikin to…
July 20, 2025
Could publicly-owned grocery stores break Canada’s grocery oligopoly?
A bold proposal from New York’s Zohran Mamdani is sparking interest north of the border. Experts say a…
July 20, 2025
The Hill Times, subsidies and Poilievre…
According to The Hill Times: Pierre Poilievre has chosen one of the safest Tory seats in the country…
July 19, 2025
Tariffs likely to stay. What now, for Canada?
…it’s unlikely Canada will be able to convince the U.S. to abandon sectoral tariffs completely, given they reflect…
July 19, 2025
Opinion: Carney inherited a fiscal mess from Trudeau, and he is set to make it worse
Jake Fuss and Grady Munro: Promising to balance the operating budget while continuing to borrow elsewhere is like…
July 19, 2025