Reading Time: 3 minutes Even climate extremists should embrace natural gas, since it’s slowly replacing coal and oil, and cutting carbon emissions
Tag: Canadian economy
Canada’s new Healthy Eating Strategy will pay huge dividends
Reading Time: 3 minutes Proposed new Food Guide and nutrition labelling policies are crucial to helping Canadians achieve better health
Busting the minimum wage myth
Reading Time: 3 minutes An overwhelming number of studies show that raising the minimum wage actually eliminates employment opportunities
Ottawa lays another brick in the wall to stop Alberta oil exports
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ottawa ignores the evidence with Bill C-48, which will make it more difficult to ship oil and byproducts to lucrative Asian markets
EDC’s lack of cash threatens taxpayers
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Crown corporation could be worth up to $30 billion if divested. But it could be worthless if it can’t realize its assets as cash
Pipeline drama provides great politics, dubious policy
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is as close as Canadian politics gets to reality TV, with self-interested actors embroiled in conflict against a common enemy
City hall holds the key to solving Canada’s urban housing crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes As centres for jobs, education and innovation, municipalities play an outsized role in Canada’s continued prosperity
Economic incentives pay dividends
Reading Time: 4 minutes A recognition that incentives matter would require a wholesale reversal of many, if not most, of the economic policies enacted by the Trudeau government
Notice a drop in your standard of living? Blame pipeline delays
Reading Time: 3 minutes Opening up new oil markets will increase investment, drive up the economy and boost the loonie and our standard of living
No pipeline to energy sector investment
Reading Time: 3 minutes Trudeau government nationalizing Trans Mountain pipeline project is further proof that Canada is closed for business