Reading Time: 3 minutes As shocking as it was, most of us will eventually forget Loblaw‘s admission of price-fixing. Let’s hope the industry doesn’t
Tag: Scandals
Canada’s tax code is too complicated – even for CRA officials
Reading Time: 3 minutes As tax complexity grows, so do tax compliance costs. Canadians spend nearly $7 billion complying with the personal income tax system each year
#MeToo movement gains traction in Ottawa
Reading Time: 4 minutes Ottawa’s corridors of power have been buzzing about a coming bombshell. The revelations will bring a speedy end to many political careers
Perhaps the worst cabinet minister in the history of Confederation
Reading Time: 4 minutes Just when you thought Melanie Joly couldn’t mess up anything else, she blew $5.6 million on a temporary rink on Parliament Hill
Give us our daily bread: why a food cartel probe is necessary
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Competition Bureau’s investigation into bread pricing is likely intended to tell Canadian grocers to stop squeezing food processors
Trudeau’s betrayal of Mexico smells of desperation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Trudeau’s betrayal makes Canadians look like they will turn on their allies, even after they repeatedly said they never would
Melanie Joly’s stunning incompetencies
Reading Time: 3 minutes The federal heritage minister made a mess of the Netflix decision, Canada’s 150th birthday celebration and a Holocaust memorial
Crown corporations are the weak link in economic growth
Reading Time: 3 minutes They lack the discipline of the marketplace and the ambition that comes from a desire to grow and improve to gain profit
Canadians behaving badly abroad, without consequences
Reading Time: 3 minutes Prominent Canadians who act like jackasses or commit crimes while in other countries shouldn’t be rewarded when they come home
Cornwallis and Ryerson: heroes or villains?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recognizing that all of us are an amalgam of good deeds and bad attitudes will save us from a ceaseless round of endless moaning about the sins of our ancestors