Scrap this Ministry of Truth-type $600-million bailout and eliminate any perception of a conflict of interest in our media’s reporting of the government To maintain trust in the audit process, users of the audited financial statements must know the auditors have not been influenced by any conflict of interest, real […]

What the Conservative leader said — and what it meant The speech Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole gave to the party policy conference was filled with thematic messages, the main one being that the party needed to change if it were to appeal more to voters in central Canada. On the topic of […]

An analysis by The Logic found there are now more than 600 companies that offer cryptocurrency trading services in Canada but that have not registered with securities regulators When Quadriga founder Gerald Cotten died in December 2018, over 76,000 investors lost a combined $169 million, money that couldn’t be recovered […]

Would help us deal with loss of Keystone XL and provide added benefit of displacing imported oil from Saudi Arabia «The revoking of Keystone XL’s permit by U. President Joe Biden his first day in office highlights the risk for Canada of depending on a single country for its petroleum product […]

Rail poised to become more important way to send Canadian oil to U. President Joe Biden’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline is sparking renewed interest in shipping Canadian oilsands crude by rail, and that comes with its own environmental risks. have increasingly turned to trains to move their […]

Will Ottawa borrowing $100 million more produce more benefits than leaving the money with Canadians to spend? A trillion. Or, if you like, a thousand billion. Or, the one I find most impressive, a million million. President Joe Biden’s proposed COVID package is US$1.9 trillion , though the Wall Street Journal argues […]

Lagging investment, stalled innovation are flatlining Canada’s economy and causing immeasurable harm It stopped Canada’s economy dead in its tracks. What’s even more surprising, though, is that we have just gone through the worst five-year period for per capita economic growth since the Great Depression. At the end of 2015, […]

Since the days of Pierre, the urge to regulate, redistribute and centrally plan has not disappeared, despite the intervening collapse of the Berlin Wall. Indeed, the urge has swelled to global proportions on the back of projected catastrophic man-made climate change. The climate issue — whose existential seriousness Trudeau claims to believe, […]

The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party . Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words. Nineteen Eighty-Four was written in 1949. Meanwhile, […]

Here’s why the boost could be disappointing You can’t go anywhere these days and not hear about the pent-up demand «V-shaped» recovery that awaits us once we all get vaccinated . The really big spending items in the services area are rents, utilities and health care, which make up nearly 40 […]