Reading Time: 4 minutes The minister of finance seems worryingly detached from the policies of his ministry, their effect and the state of the economy
Category: Today
Beware of politicians bearing (election) gifts
Reading Time: 3 minutes Candidates tie themselves in knots dangling a return to the good old days. Unfortunately, the past doesn’t offer any solutions to our problems
The stone cold truth: marijuana clouds reality
Reading Time: 3 minutes Contrary to decades of marijuana proponent propaganda, it’s not a drug like alcohol or caffeine. It’s very purpose is intoxication
Creative class millennials revolutionize small-town life
Reading Time: 3 minutes Big cities were going to be nirvana for artists, designers and technology freaks. But high costs are leading them to happy lives in rural settings instead
The secret to happiness and health is to be grateful
Reading Time: 3 minutes Those who practise gratitude have stronger immune systems, lower blood pressure, greater compassion, more optimism and happiness, and feel more connected
Canada’s over-hyped clean-tech revolution
Reading Time: 3 minutes Elected officials are wrong to think that “clean tech” is about to reshape the Canadian economy
Canada’s income tax: 100 years old and not aging well
Reading Time: 3 minutes Income tax is now too high, too important, too complex and too costly. After a century, it’s time for serious reform
Looking for lines in the sand in Syria
Reading Time: 6 minutes What’s troubling is the abrupt manner in which the Trump administration reversed policy on Syria. Assad’s barbarism is not exactly news
Revenue wells run dry in Newfoundland and Labrador
Reading Time: 3 minutes The latest provincial budget continues a risky strategy: spending far beyond the government’s means, as the debt continues to pile up
Should the energy sector trust Canadians?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Many Canadians are hypocrites: they want to have their energy cake and burn it, too