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1. Measuring Freedom around the World

   Appeared in American Magazine Online Existing attempts to measure economic freedom have long been imperfect — blurring various definitions of freedom, using subjective rather than objective measures, and either failing to account for economic freedom or ...

2. To Bolster Failed States, Support Freedom

   Appeared in World Politics Review “In ancient times, the opulent and civilized found it difficult to defend themselves against the poor and barbarous nations,” Adam Smith observed in 1776. “In modern times, the poor and barbarous find it difficult to ...

3. Fraser Forum- November/December 2012: Solving traffic congestion the European way

   In this issue: The price of public health care insurance in 2012 by Nadeem Esmail and Milagros Palacios Canadian health care is often considered “free” but how much do Canadians actually pay for the care they receive? How the media covered Occupy Wall ...

4. Rogues Gallery

   Appeared in the American Legion Magazine In 2005, long before there was an Arab Spring, Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami announced “the autumn of autocrats” and predicted that “the entrenched systems of control in the Arab world are beginning to give way.” ...

5. A Closer Look at the Crisis in Syria

     Senior Fellow Martin Collacott served as Canada's ambassador to Syria in the 1990s. With some 30 years of distinguished service in Canada's Department of External Affairs, Collacott also held key diplomatic posts in Nigeria, Vietnam, Hong Kong ...

6. Nightmares in Syria

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, Kamloops Daily News, Truro Daily News, New Glasgow Daily News, and Amherst Daily News The crumbling regime of Syrian strongman Bashar Assad controls one of the largest chemical-weapons programs on earth, including mustard gas, ...

7. Keeping Iran on the Strait and Narrow

   Appeared in The Mark Iran is making lots of noise about closing the Strait of Hormuz, the vital international waterway that carries 17 million barrels of oil every day—35 percent of the crude oil transported by sea. The control of the Persian Gulf region ...

8. Windmill Blowback

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, Ottawa Sun, Edmonton Sun, Calgary Sun, Winnipeg Sun, and Kenora Miner and News Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy deserves credit for a number of courageous policy decisions during his presidency. Bringing France back ...

9. Fraser Forum- January/February 2012: Longer than ever- Canadian Healthcare

   In this issue: Cut now, not later by Niels Veldhuis, Milagros Palacios, and Charles Lammam Program spending needs to be cut if provincial governments want to run a stable budget without deficits. Federal government’s decit delay no surprise by Niels ...

10. The Big Chill: Energy Needs Fueling Tensions in the Arctic

    Appeared in the American Legion Magazine The United States devotes much of its diplomatic and military energies to the Middle East today for a very simple reason: The Middle East is the source of much of the world’s energy, and not coincidentally, much of ...