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1. Capitalism saved the world

   Appeared in the National Post, Calgary Herald and Vancouver Province In a recent column from a Toronto journalist on communism and capitalism, the writer made an astonishing claim: While “millions have been the tragic victims of communism,” he wrote, ...

2. Reconciliation requires debates grounded in hard data

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald Back in 1950, the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development spent $922 per registered “Indian.” As of 2012, the renamed Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada spent $9,056 per registered First Nations ...

3. Warren Buffett is not a threat to Canada

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald Ever since Berkshire Hathaway Energy announced it would buy up Calgary-based AltaLink Ltd (an electricity transmission company with 12,000 kilometres of power lines), the predictable protectionist sentiment ramped up. The ...

4. Want a middle class? Imitate Alberta and Saskatchewan

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald There has been much handwringing over the claimed disappearance of the middle class. From a bestselling international tome to domestic tax-and-spend types who think higher taxes will create more middle-income earners, there ...

5. Why Calgary's property taxes are skyrocketing

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald If you live in Calgary and you check your property tax bill this month, rest assured you are not imagining things: property taxes really are on the rise and way above inflation. Some background: Calgary's property tax ...

6. Three pro-consumer ideas for reducing US-Canada price discrepancies

   Appeared in Trail Daily Times Despite 22 years of free trade with Americans, consumers in Canada regularly pay more compared to the U.S. price tag on similar items. That fact has finally come to the attention of Ottawa: “Canadians are irritated when they ...

7. Alberta's 1980s-style fiscal karma is back

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald and Edmonton Journal Those who don't believe in reincarnation might wish to reconsider, as Alberta provides useful examples of those trapped in bad karma from decades past "fiscal karma" in this case. In an ...