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  1. France’s failed tax and spend experiment

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald When French President Francois Hollande visited Canada recently, one hopes the Gallic leader looked around. If he did, he would have noticed a stark difference in the economic opportunities between the two countries with the ...

  2. Economic opportunity may be antidote to radicalism

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald The recent killing of two Canadian soldiers by self-professed, radicalized young men who became enamoured with a violent interpretation of Islam will bring up multiple assertions about the “root cause” for such attacks. Some ...

  3. Make housing more affordable: Increase supply

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald and Edmonton Journal When I first came to Alberta a quarter-century ago, vacancy rates in Calgary and Edmonton exceeded 10 per cent. In Edmonton, where I lived in 1988, landlords often gave one month free on an already cheap ...

  4. Status quo defined benefit pension plans for government sector employees are akin to a blank cheque

    Appeared in the Financial Post and Calgary Herald Since the turn of the millennium, the ever-increasing cost to taxpayers of government sector pension plans has been made evident time and again. Contribution rates have been hiked, often doubling in one ...

  5. Cracking the travel and hospitality industry cartel

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald In many Canadian cities, if you try to catch a cab in the dead of winter, after a hockey game, early in the morning after exiting a club, or at peak holiday times, good luck. Most Canadian cities of significant size have ...

  6. Break the law this autumn; Buy wine from another province

    If you live in British Columbia, Manitoba or Nova Scotia, raise a toast to the enlightened politicians who rule over you. In those provinces, consumers face no legal or regulatory barriers to mutually consenting commerce with wineries elsewhere in Canada. ...

  7. Want smarter government? Focus it

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Oct 4, 2014 Murray Smith, a former Alberta cabinet minister in the Ralph Klein government, the one that privatized government liquor stores and licence registries in 1993, once told me about a side benefit of such ...

  8. New Brunswick ignores energy success up north and in Pennsylvania

      In the recent New Brunswick election, an unremarkable engineering activity apparently took front and centre: hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, popularly known as fracking. The outgoing premier, David Alward, was clearly in favour of fracking. He ...

  9. Memo to politicians: Imitate the Fathers of Confederation

    Back in Canada’s pre-Confederation days, one selling point for uniting the then-disparate British provinces was to drop existing barriers to commerce. The hope was for a country with a free-flow of trade and services in which all could potentially prosper ...

  10. There's good reason to monitor government spending

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Sept 20, 2014 Ever wonder why it's difficult for politicians to govern wisely? Part of the reason is straw men created by some in the media. Here's an example. Both the Toronto Star's Rick Salutin and the ...