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  1. Canada slipping in terms of economic freedom

    Canada dropped to 14th in the new Economic Freedom of the World report, down slightly from 13th the previous year. ...

  2. Ottawa and others provide comfort for Cuban regime

    President Miguel Diaz-Canel has essentially called for violence against protesters. ...

  3. For freedom’s sake, rate Hong Kong

    The Heritage Foundation has dropped Hong Kong from its 2021 Index of Economic Freedom. ...

  4. COVID will cast long shadow over future generations

    An OECD study suggested a 3 per cent COVID-related lifetime loss in income. ...

  5. Alberta’s woes threaten Canada’s finances from coast to coast

    Ottawa annually pocketed $22 billion more in revenue from Alberta than it spent in the province. ...

  6. Governments in Atlantic Canada should increase space for the private sector

    Appeared in the Halifax Chronicle Herald, January 29, 2021 The scale of Atlantic Canada’s dependence on Ottawa and the inflow of “gift money”—the difference between federal expenditures and revenues—is seldom understood. But this influx of money-from ...

  7. Atlantic provinces addiction to big government suppresses economic growth

    Sweden compensates for its big government with an open free-market economy and business-friendly laws. ...

  8. New Brunswick’s waning economic freedom part of region-wide crisis

    In 2019, government spending equaled a remarkable 55 per cent of Atlantic Canada's economy. ...

  9. Alberta’s multiple crises include waning economic freedom

    Appeared in the Calgary Sun, November 18, 2020 From 2009 to 2015, Alberta proudly ranked first in economic freedom among the 10 Canadian provinces, 50 U.S. states and 32 Mexican states. But according to the Fraser Institute’s new Economic Freedom of North ...

  10. China’s attack on Hong Kong’s freedom must be fully exposed

    Appeared in the Calgary Sun, October 14, 2020 In a recent New York Times op-ed, Regina Ip, a member of Hong Kong’s Executive Council (essentially the cabinet of Hong Kong’s government), defended the Chinese Communist Party’s assault on freedom in Hong ...