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1. Europe’s airfares a bargain compared to Canada

   “Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people,” wrote Mark Twain in an 1867 letter to a San Francisco newspaper. ...

2. How about some European lessons from our summer vacations?

   Appeared in Calgary Herald, Victoria Times Colonist, Waterloo Region Record and Guelph Mercury Back when I was in elementary school, come September, teachers often asked students to write an essay describing their summer vacation. I don’t know if the ...

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. Welcome back to the 19th century

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Red Deer Advocate and Miramichi Leader Back in the 20th century, much of the world’s politics was shot through with deep-rooted ideologies that had a considerable effect, often negative, on humanity. This month, as the ...

6. From the welfare state to the entitlement state

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald Question: If someone made $62,000 last year, had $187,000 in their bank account, and yet sought a $5,360 subsidy from government, what would the common sense response be? Most people would say that person possesses chutzpah ...

7. 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 ...

8. Governments go subsidy-wild with $684 billion spent on subsidies since 1981

   Appeared in the Victoria Times Colonist and Trail Daily Times Ever wonder how Canada's net federal debt reached $671 billion by 2013? Or how net provincial debt among the provinces ended up at $509 billion that same year? Wonder no more. It's ...

9. Canadian oil can make the world a safer place

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald and Edmonton Journal Given Canada's proximity to the United States, we tend to take our peace and security for granted. This comfortable distance from most of the world's violence has also led us to underestimate ...

10. Government Subsidies in Canada- A $684 Billion Price Tag

    This study attempts to measure the scope of government subsidies in Canada using three data sets. The first is from Statistics Canada from the 1981 to 2009 fiscal years. This data shows that between April 1, 1980 and March 31, 2009, federal, provincial, ...