The recession, the economic equivalent of a thermonuclear device, affected men and women almost equally Armine Yalnizyan of the Atkinson Foundation has been superspreading the idea that the distinctive feature of the 2020 recession is its disproportionate impact on women. She maintains that, with its devastating hit on service industries, the […]
Knowing how inorganic this recovery is makes it hard to be bullish on the loonie I get asked all the time why it is that data in Canada have been looking so good. Well, few other countries have turned on the monetary and fiscal spigots like Canada has. It’s an embarrassment […]
Green technologies that were known money-losers before the pandemic are still money-losers today There’s a curious idea floating around that the COVID crisis undid the principles of economics. Nobody puts it exactly like that, but it’s implied in the various proposals for restructuring the post-pandemic economy so that it will […]
He’s not fit to run a G7 country, or even a lemonade stand, with handouts equivalent to spending of adolescent trust fund kid A recent international poll showed that most Canadians believe Canada has done an excellent job battling COVID-19. That’s true, but plaudits belong to the provinces for mobilizing their […]
The effort to sideline individualism and associated economic ideas is being propelled by journalists, academics and political forces in the name of fighting racism and other isms The storm has been moving in for some time, building up over decades of political and academic activism fuelled by the ideological advocacy […]
Ted Rechtshaffen: How did we get to a point where we want and expect free from the government? “My rent should be waived!” “Tuition should be free!” “You can’t take away CERB!” It seems that more and more Canadians are expecting income support from the government, and increasingly, the government […]
It’s time to get some grown-ups in Ottawa Next week, a new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada will be selected, and will become the next prime minister of Canada. I state this with such confidence for two reasons: the Bloc Québécois leader has signalled that he will support a […]
Opinion: The Liberal mix of higher taxes, more government spending and deeper indebtedness did not result in a robust economy as promised By Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios and Niels Veldhuis The Trudeau Liberals were elected in 2015 promising a new direction in fiscal policy. Their 2015 platform stated that: “Canada’s economy […]
The prime minister said it was needed so students would have summer jobs. But students aren’t taking jobs that already exist By Gwyn Morgan Conflict of interest revelations surrounding the selection of WE Charity to administer the Canada Student Service Grant have dominated media coverage and led to investigations by parliamentary […]
Canada should have — as Australia has done — outed China’s behaviour as equivalent to acts of war, then joined the trade gang-up with the United States Huawei Technologies Co. is not a tech corporation. It is a weapon, created and subsidized by Beijing that ruthlessly gobbles up and spits out competitors and countries. It’s […]