Reading Time: 3 minutes Too few Canadians know they can use TFSA funds to invest in ventures that could bring big gains (and cost nothing in tax)
Month: March 2017
Independent schools offer choice and quality, not elitism
Reading Time: 3 minutes Discussions about B.C.’s vibrant independent education community should focus on what those schools offer families, not on ill-informed stereotypes
The best kind of social medicine in Medicine Hat
Reading Time: 3 minutes By eliminating homelessness, the Alberta city has reduced the crime rate, the workload on first responders, hospital emergency visits and pressure on the courts
Married priests would broaden perspective of Catholic Church
Reading Time: 4 minutes While there are significant challenges, married priests would be a boon to a church suffering from a lack of manpower
Implausible government budgeting undermines trust
Reading Time: 3 minutes The fed’s Bill Morneau and Alberta’s Joe Ceci say their budgets are realistic, but they’ve provided no evidence that they’re even plausible
If we want an innovative Canada, stop punishing innovators
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Trudeau government is all talk and no action when it comes to encouraging innovation
Getting snowed under in a political Potter’s field
Reading Time: 3 minutes The fault isn’t with Quebec society. It’s with a political world that utterly rejects that it must bear responsibility when hundreds are stranded in a storm
Growing pains for the agri-food sector
Reading Time: 3 minutes The federal budget injects some new life into Canada’s agricultural industries, but not enough funding and not nearly enough clarity of vision
Why French Canadians have a right to be offended
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Andrew Potter incident should be viewed from the perspective of an ongoing pattern of anglophones marginalizing francophones
Budget 2017 spells the end of the Chretien Consensus
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Trudeau government’s second budget is essentially an extension of its first. Deficits continue, debt is growing, spending is up and taxes are rising