Reading Time: 3 minutes The hype doesn’t match the data
Month: November 2015
Memo to Finance Minister Bill Morneau
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada faces stiff economic headwinds and your largely uncosted election promises could easily amount to many billions of extra dollars
The smarter way to fight terrorism at home
Reading Time: 3 minutes With new defence minister Harjit Sajja at the helm, Canada stands a fighting chance of averting a devastating terrorist attack
Remembrance Day: The Homefront in Alberta
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Second World War was hard on the men fighting on the front lines as well as those they left behind
A sober second look at the federal election
Reading Time: 3 minutes In terms of popular vote share and per cent of seats won, the Liberal win was identical to the Conservative victory in 2011
Food fraud days are numbered
Reading Time: 3 minutes With better technology in the hands of the consumer, food fraud will begin to disappear
First Nations leadership does matter
Reading Time: 3 minutes Selecting the first indigenous minister of Indigenous Affairs is about raising expectations of all indigenous peoples
Time for a Canadian energy strategy
Reading Time: 3 minutes In rejecting Keystone, Obama blew apart the underlying logic of Canada’s current energy strategy
China’s credit rating system measures citizens’ behaviour
Reading Time: 3 minutes Your “credit” score declines if you criticize the government online
Rise of the gluten-free heroes
Reading Time: 3 minutes The fact that the gluten-free movement overlapped with the increase in food prices is no coincidence