Reading Time: 4 minutes Brutal communist societies did advance economic equality, although what was shared equally was poverty rather than prosperity
Month: February 2018
The Alberta disadvantage: tax rates drive away investors
Reading Time: 3 minutes Unfortunately, to bolster Alberta’s tax competitiveness will require meaningful action to repair the province’s once sterling finances
Can Doug Ford win the Ontario PC race? Damn right he can
Reading Time: 4 minutes The former Toronto city councillor has shed his bombastic ways, is reaching out and stepping carefully. It could all add up to an Ontario PC leadership win
Baseball’s big free-agent balk
Reading Time: 4 minutes Baseball’s new success formula: Get out of the middle class for a while, sell the house, live in a trailer, accumulate credits and then buy a fabulous mansion
PC carbon tax reversal still possible in Ontario
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Conservatives can reject their own carbon tax promise and defeat Kathleen Wynne in the June election
The green agenda comes at a high cost for Canadians
Reading Time: 3 minutes Government green programs impose costs on third parties. Consumers and taxpayers must pay for those policies, and the environment actually suffers
Sharing the spoils in a world ruled by the few
Reading Time: 3 minutes In a future ruled by titans, plebs lose opportunities to innovate. Advancement depends on idea generation in the hands of the many rather than the few
Building bridges of trust to energy decision-making
Reading Time: 6 minutes Part 2 of a six-part series: Positive Energy is one of the key entities capable of constructively shaping the way Canadians understand and discuss energy issues
Not every mental health concern requires a doctor
Reading Time: 4 minutes Perhaps the elixir of good feeling is available at a friend’s house, at the next desk in the office, or from a partner or spouse
Is Trump’s economic train gaining momentum?
Reading Time: 3 minutes As the midterm U.S. elections in November loom, the battle ramps up between positive financial numbers and fairness in a true democracy