Reading Time: 3 minutes Interest payments on the debt leave less money to spend on health care, education and social services
Month: January 2016
More money for health care is not the answer
Reading Time: 3 minutes Any new accord needs to address particular regional concerns with a distinct contract between Ottawa and each province
Germany’s experience with refugees won’t be repeated here
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian officials are working rapidly but diligently to ensure that all Syrian refugees approved to enter our country are properly vetted
5 things we know about economic inequality
Reading Time: 3 minutes And why we need to act
Federal transfers to the provinces at an all-time high
Reading Time: 3 minutes The complaint from some provinces that Ottawa is shortchanging them is false
Alberta needs the will to rebuild its economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes To maintain its economy as the resource economy declines, Alberta must get serious about diversification
Integration just isn’t what it used to be
Reading Time: 3 minutes Assimilation has become a dirty word, with anyone who advocates it liable to be accused of promoting cultural genocide
Growing government debt danger to Canada’s future prosperity
Reading Time: 4 minutes Governments should use the coming budget season as an opportunity to take serious action to reverse the trend
Every religion has its lunatic fringe
Reading Time: 3 minutes Those of us who are Christians have ours, and the Muslims do, too
TransCanada lawsuit spotlights weak climate change connection to Keystone
Reading Time: 3 minutes Rejection of the pipeline was never about climate change