Thursday, September 17, 2026

Is privatizing Canada's airports a good idea?

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Mark Carney's latest announcement is about privatizing Canada's four biggest airports : Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary. Un...

What Donald Trump knows about interest rates (not much)

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Just one more indication of how little Donald Trump knows (or cares) about economics: after the US Federal Reserve finally had the cojones ...
Thursday, September 10, 2026

International trade is weird

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As expected, Donald Trump has levied some more tariffs on Canada , in response to Canada's counter-tariffs to Trump's earlier tariff...
Wednesday, September 09, 2026

Clancy trial ends in a travesty of justice

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The Lindsay Clancy trial has captivated the media and the viewing public for weeks. The trial was televised - a weird concept for me; this i...

If there are more sanctions to announce, why weren't they announced before?

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Every now and then, I read about a new sanction that is being brought to bear on one of the world's pariah states. The latest such is Ca...
Sunday, September 06, 2026

What carnivore diet devotees get wrong

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I've been vegetarian for about forty-five years, as has my wife, for a bunch of different reasons, and it doesn't seem to have done ...
Friday, September 04, 2026

Extending gas tax relief is a cynical exercise in populism

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The Carney government, which for the longest time liked to call itself "Canada's new government" in order to distance it from ...
Thursday, September 03, 2026

You might want to boycott Chevron

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Most major oil companies are unwilling to touch Venezuelen oil with a proverbial bargepole. Not so Chevron. America's second largest oil...