Reading Time: 3 minutes They provide the machinery and the fuel for empowering and sustaining the new global economy of the 21st century
Month: September 2019
Is there a conservative case against the carbon tax?
Reading Time: 3 minutes All four strands of conservatism in Canada – traditionalist, religious, free-market and populist – should logically support a tax
Moral investment constraints too onerous for pension funds
Reading Time: 3 minutes Never mind that reducing the choices available to a fund manager can result in negative consequences for pensioners
On Labour Day, celebrate labour, not unions
Reading Time: 3 minutes Unions harm workers more than they help. And they seek a bigger slice of the economic pie, even while shrinking the pie through productivity loss
Memories of a Transmission lost in translation
Reading Time: 4 minutes Transmission Difficulties: The Dignitaries once had a place of pride behind my father’s desk. My mother eventually sold it. Now we know why
Canadian drugs can’t cure deadly U.S. shortages
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada can’t even keep itself stocked with necessary medication and falls far short when it comes to research spending
Helen Keller’s birthplace stirs the senses
Reading Time: 3 minutes Museum honours ‘America’s First Lady of Courage’
Who is reading your resume?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Understanding who, or what, reads your resume will increase your chances of getting hired
A soft egg in the Nahanni National Park Reserve
Reading Time: 6 minutes Discovering Virginia Falls, a remarkable UNESCO World Heritage Site – and learning a little German