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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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 ...

  3. More taxes buy more government; not a more civilized society

    Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen "Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf," said the American humourist Will Rogers. Indeed, but let’s not stop there. In Canada, debates over taxes, government and civilization lead some ...

  4. Alberta government unions and the Easter Bunny

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald Now that the province has reaffirmed its intent to lightly modify government employee pension plans, government unions will again try to divert the public from the facts. For example, after my recent column on the ever ...

  5. How Quebec can get its mojo back- Focus on prosperity, not politics

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald For decades, Quebec and its governments have been petulant and demanding. The tendency has been there since at least the first avowedly separatist Parti Quebecois government, elected in 1976. That habit continued regardless ...

  6. Right out of a Monty Python movie- Government unions and pension claims

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Kelowna Daily Courier, and Vernon Daily Courier If Canadians ever wonder why it is so difficult to reform government spending, there's a simple reason: government employee unions. A good example (if one can call it ...

  7. Fewer gimmicks, more transparency needed in Ottawa

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald, New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, Winnipeg Free Press, Waterloo Region Record, and Guelph Mercury No normal person pays close attention to who is "in" or "out" as finance minister, and that's a good ...

  8. Is Quebec subsidized by the rest of Canada?

    There is nothing like an election to bring out the optimistic side in people—and some mythmaking. In Quebec, recent attention focused on Premier Pauline Marois and her musings that if her party wins the provincial election, and if separation one day ...

  9. The Alberta government's $2-billion leap back into corporate welfare

    Appeared in the Financial Post Alberta’s provincial government has provided plenty of political theatre as of late, with, as I write, three resignations from the government, including that of Alison Redford as premier. However, the Redford resignation may ...

  10. A $13 billion reason for consumers to support the South Korean free trade agreement

    Appeared in the Victoria Times Colonist and Calgary Herald If Canadians need a reason to support the just-announced free trade agreement with South Korea, here are a few hundred million: every year, Canadians pay hundreds of millions of dollars in hidden ...