Reading Time: 3 minutes By imposing a tax on already signed agreements, B.C. is demonstrating a worrisome indifference to the rule of law
Category: Politics
Keep Ottawa out of the childcare business
Reading Time: 3 minutes When subsidies go to childcare spaces or centres, rather than directly to parents, the government paints families into a corner
Three principles for better schools
Reading Time: 3 minutes More than ever, Canada needs an education system based on the powerful principles of freedom, autonomy and accountability
Cracking the glass ceiling takes time
Reading Time: 3 minutes Changing the status quo also takes honesty, decency, conviction, perseverance – and a united effort on the part of others
Canada’s internal trade challenge: making 191 words count
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s one thing for our premiers to agree in principle to freer internal trade, but we’ve been down this road before without success
Financial literacy must be part of learning plan
Reading Time: 3 minutes By giving students the tools they will need to grow wealth, as opposed to bad debt, we will be helping the next generation to succeed
Do you know how much you pay for health care?
Reading Time: 3 minutes An average family of four pays $11,494 each year. For perspective, average wait times for treatment is 18.3 weeks
The party’s over: without ideology, we lack leadership
Reading Time: 3 minutes Elections are no longer contests of ideas but rather competing marketing campaigns to see who gets to control the state’s levers of coercion
Media consultant Tony Schwartz transformed modern politics
Reading Time: 4 minutes His one minute TV ad called Daisy won the 1964 election for U.S. President Lyndon Johnson
Russia’s Olympic pass a blow to IOC’s credibility
Reading Time: 3 minutes The IOC made a spineless decision that could set a bad precedent