The government of Canada needs to stop talking and start listening to what industry leaders are saying loud and clear: Canada’s main economic problems aren’t Donald Trump and the United States, they're self-inflicted overregulation that's stifling Canadian innovation and productivity. Bashing the United States might benefit Mark Carney politically, but it does nothing to solve our homegrown economic problems. Read More

On Monday, Conservative MP Kelly DeRidder stood up in Parliament and confirmed that the Liberals have been trying to poach Conservatives, including herself. Read More

Just when you think that Canada Post couldn’t sink any lower into the financial abyss, the once-venerable Crown Corporation has set another record for futility and failure. Read More

We sometimes forget that the bad economic policy choices of U.S. politicians often pale in comparison to those of their counterparts in other countries. The result is that, despite the government’s best efforts, Americans are growing more prosperous at a faster rate than their peers elsewhere. The divergence is happening so rapidly, the U.K.’s Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) recently pointed out, that Britons (among others) lose track of how quickly they’re falling behind Americans’ wealth and living standards. A return to free-market principles could help to once again even the score. Read More

Federal health minister Marjorie Michel was on the hot seat in February when the Conservatives’ senior member on the parliamentary health committee, Dan Mazier, grilled her about injection sites. Read More

Canadians have long looked away from their often gruesome southern neighbor, tempted instead to embrace a chicer European identity. They could point to a more civil public culture, greater bilingualism and a more generous welfare state, compared to the dog-eat-dog reality of the United States. Prime Minister Mark Carney has called Canada “the most European of non-European countries,” and some policy wonks now advocate joining the EU. Read More

On Wednesday, the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran ended. Late Tuesday night in Washington D.C., President Donald Trump announced that the truce would be extended indefinitely. Read More

On Sunday, a community centre in Montreal hosted a Palestinian prisoners speaking event that celebrated convicted terrorists involved in stabbings, murders and a failed suicide bombing. The event was organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), a group with documented ties to terrorist entities. Read More

For years, I worked alongside one of Alberta’s most respected business leaders, the late Charlie Fischer, longtime CEO of several major Canadian energy companies. An engineer by training with a sharp mind and commanding presence, Charlie could build almost anything — pipelines, plants, businesses — but he refused to steamroll differing points of view, including mine when we disagreed. Read More