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1. Canada’s vaccine rollout continues to lag

   If Moderna had been allowed to sell its vaccines earlier, many Canadian death and illnesses may have been prevented. ...

2. Some much-needed perspective on COVID infection and death rates

   The evidence is overwhelming that government policies reduce the spread of COVID-19. Like most Canadians, I follow the recommended policies, leave home only to buy necessities and keep proper distance from others on my one-hour daily walk ...

3. Ottawa has a middle-class definition problem

   The OECD defines the middle class as anyone earning between 75 per cent and 200 per cent of median household income after tax. ...

4. Under threat—the lucrative export of U.S. dollar notes and U.S. Treasury securities

   President Donald Trump’s policies to balance trade and increase employment will likely fail because of an iron law of international economics: If a country spends more on goods and services than it produces, the difference must be ...

5. Ending supply management will greatly benefit Canadian consumers

   In renegotiating NAFTA, President Trump wants to end Canada’s supply management system. ...

6. Personal income taxes and the capital gains tax

   Numerous studies have demonstrated the high costs imposed on economies that maintain capital gains taxes, particularly those such as Canada that are relatively small and trade-oriented. The source of these costs is that capital gains ...

7. Canada might improve Olympic success by limiting range of sports

   After every Olympics, all countries assess the effectiveness of their policies used to train and select the athletes they send to the Games. Such assessment relies mostly on countries’ ranking by some simple metrics. The most widely used ...

8. Despite predictable opposition, pending trade deals would benefit Canada

   At the top of her agenda, Chrystia Freeland (pictured above), Canada’s new Minister of International Trade, plans to work with Parliament to ratify two important treaties that reduce existing barriers to free trade—the Comprehensive ...

9. Lobbying helps preserve billions in transfers for Canada's milk producers

   All political parties in Canada during the 2015 election campaign have pledged their ever-lasting support for the maintenance of the existing supply management program, which fixes prices, determines output and imports for dairy products ...