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1. Trump’s deconstruction of Obama climate policy has major implications for Canada

   Once again, the regulatory landscape involving climate change has shifted under the feet of both the United States and Canada, as President Donald Trump has finally fulfilled his pledge to unwind Barack Obama’s climate change policies. ...

2. The 2016 U.S. Presidential election—who won, who lost?

   Much ink has been spilled trying to explain the surprise election of President-elect Donald Trump. This post isn’t meant to make any comment or provide analysis regarding the pros or cons of the election but rather to empirically clarify ...

3. Trump victory checked by constraints of modern constitutional republics

   Norman Rockwell’s 1943 painting “ Freedom of Speech ” is a visual encomium to the wonders of the democratic process. At the town meeting, everyone gets a chance to speak his or her mind. The blue-collar worker who has risen to say what ...

4. Renewed softwood lumber dispute may fan U.S. protectionist flames in other industries

   While Canadian and U.S. trade officials negotiate a new softwood lumber agreement (a one-year “standstill” period expired last week), Canadian officials have privately indicated that the price of an agreement demanded by the Americans is ...

5. Softwood lumber trade dispute beginning to boil again

   When Prime Minister Trudeau and President Obama met in Ottawa at the end of June, they apparently reached no agreement about how to handle a file that has been an ongoing source of conflict between Canada and the United States since 1982 ...

6. Waning U.S. productivity growth threatens Canada’s economic health

   The U.S. Labor Department recently reported that U.S. nonfarm business productivity—the goods and services produced for each hour worked by American workers—decreased at a 0.5 per cent seasonally adjusted annual rate over the period ...

7. Melania, Michelle and the threadbare platitudes of plagiarism

   While the Republican Party is holding its convention, which, among other things, formally produces the party’s nominee for the American presidential election in November, one might expect extensive outcry from their opponents in the ...