Reading Time: 3 minutes Provide biopharmaceutical firms with patent term extensions to recover time lost due to mandatory governmental regulatory and marketing approvals
Month: January 2017
As Liberals retreat, Canadians want to advance democratic reform
Reading Time: 3 minutes The results of the MyDemocracy.ca poll show a remarkably broad consensus that winner-take-all politics is not what Canadians want
The Trump effect: Canada’s politicians wearing invisible cloaks
Reading Time: 4 minutes Remember that old maxim: Silence in the face of injustice – and hate and cruelty – is complicity
Sid Ryan: the final roar of the socialist lion?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Can Ryan ride the new populist, nationalist and anti-establishment wave that’s sweeping through western democracies – from a socialist perspective?
Maximum disruption, promise made and promise kept
Reading Time: 3 minutes Trump adviser Steve Bannon wants precisely the kind of chaos we’re now witnessing, to bring the establishment crashing down
Why Alberta can’t get a handle on its chronic deficits
Reading Time: 3 minutes The fundamental problem in Alberta is that spending growth over several years exceeds revenue growth, and is growing faster than other key economic metrics
The all-day breakfast wake-up call
Reading Time: 3 minutes The divide between breakfast, lunch and dinner is eroding as millennials start to gain a hold in the marketplace
Canada’s media: you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone
Reading Time: 4 minutes Fake news was around long before Donald Trump made it a thing – and it hit Canada’s energy sector hard
Trump one week in: is there more here than meets the eye?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Focus more on what Trump is doing, rather than on what he is saying, to determine exactly where this administration is going
Canada needs a strategy to improve drug safety for seniors
Reading Time: 3 minutes Much more can and should be done by governments to address this serious health issue for our aging population