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1. Reality check—the dangers of debt accumulation

   Canada's total government debt now equals 107 per cent of GDP. ...

2. Hope springs eternal for freedom worldwide

   A freedom recedes globally, the question is whether the tide has turned for good. Pessimism is in order for the short-run (say 20 years), but history provides hope for the long-run. The just released Human Freedom Index 2020: A Global ...

3. Deep flaw in EU architecture can erase pro-market reforms

   The European Union enjoyed its pinnacle of influence after the Soviet Union collapsed. ...

4. China looks to douse freedom in Hong Kong

   The Communist Party of China (CPC) recently ordered large-scale arrests of dissidents and imposed a security law, which attacks Hong Kong’s Basic Law (effectively, a freedom-protecting constitution) by bypassing Hong Kong’s Legislative ...

5. As the world shifted to free markets, poverty rates plummeted

   Life expectancy is 80 years in the freest countries compared to 64 in the least-free countries. ...

6. Canada has lost its competitive advantage over the U.S.

   Say you are a store owner and your competitor across the street offers everything at lower price and higher quality, well, you’re in trouble. If your competitor was far on the other side of the city, things might be a bit better. But ...

7. Indonesia should study Canada’s history of resource development

   Indonesia is at a crossroads for its oil and gas industry. It can let the industry slowly die, or change course and build a dynamic economic force that enhances tax revenues, creates high-paying jobs and boosts the country’s high-tech ...

8. Economic freedom has been key to advancement of women worldwide

   Through March, we’ve seen two well-publicized celebrations of freedom, though the architecture of freedom has been little discussed. CNN’s Freedom Week featured clips of people, many of them famous, describing what freedom means to them. ...

9. Global free trade, an essential element of economic freedom, is under threat

   China throws up barriers to international competition and assaults foreign investment. ...

10. Growing government, increased regulation primary threats to economic freedom in Canada

    Since comprehensive data for Economic Freedom became available in 1970, Canada’s had a secure place in the world’s top 10 jurisdictions. But could Canada be at the beginning of a long slow decline, like the one that has afflicted the ...