Reading Time: 3 minutes Government can do more by doing less, by unleashing the private sector
Author: Ian Madsen
Oil industry not dead yet despite disruptions
Reading Time: 4 minutes But a true recovery in oil prices will require an economic recovery, whose timing remains unclear
Why do Canada’s provinces gamble on the oil markets?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Provincial governments need to be sober, disciplined, realistic and do whatever they can to not lose money for their citizens
Want to pay for medical supplies? Stop funding CBC
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our health-care budgets were already greatly strained before the COVID-19 crisis; they’re completely blown out now
Easing urban traffic congestion no simple task
Reading Time: 3 minutes Cities are establishing taxes on electric cars and other low-emission vehicles to reduce traffic and raise infrastructure funds
How Canada can confront future pandemics
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our leaders should have ways to handle a public health disaster without throwing half the population into penury
Mortgage misery awaits too many Canadian families
Reading Time: 3 minutes At the heart of the COVID-19 crisis sits the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corp. and its low-income borrowers
Practical ways to tackle our emissions problems
Reading Time: 3 minutes Climate warriors spend a great deal of time condemning current practices without offering realistic solutions
Industrial world held hostage by China
Reading Time: 3 minutes The COVID-19 crisis has amplified the warning: dependence on Chinese products is a key vulnerability for Western nations
One government after another fails in face of COVID-19
Reading Time: 4 minutes Governments around the world have been tardy, negligent, dysfunctional or otherwise an impediment to an aggressive and successful outcome