Reading Time: 3 minutes Deciding to push ahead with further spending increases and hope for revenues to fill the budget gap represents a failure to learn from the past
Category: Viewpoint
To understand Trump read Ayn Rand
Reading Time: 3 minutes When the only metric that counts is money, what’s the value of any aspect of civil society, helping others, being kind or empathetic?
Can Russia and the United States be allies?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Expanded co-operation with the West and an increase in Russia’s role in combatting jihadism would come at a steep price — for both sides
Putting a higher value on higher learning
Reading Time: 3 minutes Graduate schools must encourage students to evaluate their competencies and appreciate how those skills will help them pursue non-academic careers
Federal budget 2017 fails the middle class
Reading Time: 3 minutes While the budget is entitled “Building a Stronger Middle Class”, the government’s own projections prove the opposite is actually occurring
Federal budget punts major policy decisions to another day
Reading Time: 4 minutes Instead of a wait-and-see budget, the government could have been proactive and taken steps to carve out a clear economic agenda
Alberta NDP rejects prosperous polices of the Chretien era
Reading Time: 4 minutes Approach reminiscent of the failed deficit-reduction strategies of Alberta governments throughout the 1970s and 1980s
Radical Jack and the birth of modern Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Spare a thought for Lord Durham, an unlikely Englishman who played a significant role in the events leading up to Confederation
Investing in children to stop the scourge of extremism
Reading Time: 3 minutes Through education young people can be made aware of how they’ll be used and exploited by the people who pretend to care for them
Hiking capital gains taxes will soak middle class too
Reading Time: 3 minutes A rate hike will lighten the wallets of many middle-income Canadians who realize a large one-time capital gain