Reading Time: 3 minutes The B.C. government balked at applying the foreign buyer tax to pre-sale contracts, so property flipping won’t slow down and it certainly won’t stop
Author: Lee Harding
Catching a ride on the ‘creative destructive’ economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes As the taxi industry faces off with Uber, governments should let the marketplace sort out the winners and losers
How do we end emergency room madness?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The simple solution to overcrowding in our hospitals is to allow Canadians to purchase health insurance that covers medically-necessary care
Ontario politicians addicted to ill-fated pharmacare
Reading Time: 3 minutes Free prescription drugs skew people away from healthy lifestyles and spread the financial burden to taxpayers who don’t qualify for the drug plans
China’s foreign garbage ban reveals recycling’s weakness
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recycling seems like a neat solution until we can’t dump our garbage on another country and have to deal with it ourselves
Lost in the fog: climate manipulation is all too real
Reading Time: 4 minutes Don’t blame carbon emissions on weird weather. Corporations and governments have been changing the weather quite intentionally for decades
“Progressive” trade agenda leads to regressive results
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada wants to include social and environmental standards in trade deals. Countries like China aren’t interested in anything but economic advancement
The plastic bag ban bandwagon is way off course
Reading Time: 3 minutes A ban of anything the environmental movement doesn’t like is smart politics for a government that wants to look green. But a bag ban is pointless
Deboning the backbone of the Canadian economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes No one doubts that Canada needs tax reform. But there’s filleting and then there’s butchering
The battle against Airbnb flies in the face of freedom of choice
Reading Time: 3 minutes Everyday people who want to make money from their homes are opposed by unions protecting their members from competition