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1. Property rights on the Prairie

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald Amid the current focus on provincial red ink, one issue has slipped off the public radar screen in Alberta: Property rights. The lack of attention is understandable given the nearness of the provincial budget and the ...

2. Chronic worrywarts are the enemies of a cleaner future

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald In The Future and Its Enemies— The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress, a book published shortly before the millennium, author Virginia Postrel decried widespread pessimistic attacks on humanity's ...

3. Ontario consumers handicapped by beer and wine sale myths

   Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record Much of Canada’s current approach to liquor retailing has its roots in Prohibition-era attitudes towards wine, beer and spirits. But anyone who thinks that era ended should consider the anti-competition rhetoric that ...

4. Lacking constitutional protection, governments routinely trample property rights

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald and Okanagan Saturday Back when Canada's premiers and then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau debated what to put into what later became the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, property rights were one possibility and ...

5. Europe beats Canada on private property rights

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald Many people often look to Europe as an example of what Aristotle called the good life—think of their pleasant cities and obvious regard for art and history. But here’s something else Canadians can learn from Europe: how many ...