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 […]

Environmentalists have become the highest-profile cheerleaders for the CCP, helping divert attention from the regime’s worrisome pursuits The big exceptions to those who have had their eyes opened are Western environmentalists and their funders who, rather than becoming more cautious about China’s role in the world, continue to lavish its […]

But there’s a fear the market could see a bubble just like cannabis did Cannabis is only on the cusp of many investors’ comfort zones, but the family offices and high-net-worth individuals hungry for early stage, edgy investments have already moved on to psychedelics. «People see this potentially as a […]

Canadians’ average grocery bill is forecast to rise as much as 5 per cent in 2021, as COVID-19 takes a toll on supply chains, according to Canada’s Food Price Report, an annual forecast published by Dalhousie University and the University of Guelph. Based on a family of four, average food […]

Canadians have likely spent more time in grocery stores than any other place this year (apart from their homes) as they collected ingredients to idle away the lockdown hours making an assortment of breads, octopus and yet another roast. And now they can expect to spend even more money at […]

Note to Trudeau government: In the middle of a deep recession, we need a low-cost carbon plan that will have the least impact on growth The Trudeau government on Thursday announced legislation, Bill C-12, committing Canada to “binding” five-year targets to achieve net zero GHG emissions by 2050. As the […]

Trudeau’s net-zero carbon legislation sounds like Klaus Schwab’s global plan to remake the world economy Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lit up some of the highly flammable sections of social media the other day after excerpts from a two-month-old virtual speech he gave to a United Nations’ event made their way onto […]