Ten thousand young Canadians were hospitalized from cannabis use last year. The government must do more to increase understanding of the risks
Category: Commentary
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Why the Online Harms Act should not address child exploitation
It would be unwise to address blatantly illegal content like online child exploitation in the same bill that regulates ‘lawful but awful’ content
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Nova Scotia’s short-term rental rules a model to follow
British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Quebec are cracking down on short-term rentals. Here’s why Nova Scotia’s approach is best
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Carbon tax’s legality at risk due to heating oil exemption
Flying underneath the radar of Ottawa’s recent policy reversal are at least three arguments that could imperil the carbon tax’s legality
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The problem with ‘wokeness’
‘Woke’ is now equivalent to scare words of the past, like ‘socialist,’ ‘communist’ and ‘Marxist.’ The problem with ‘wokeness’ is twofold
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Real estate broker fees need a shake-up
Real estate broker commissions should have fallen. The fact that they haven’t suggests anti-competitive dynamics are at play
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The heating oil exemption is nothing new. For good reason.
The home heating exemption exposes the fallacy of a single, uniform carbon pricing policy in a country as vast and diverse as Canada
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Canada needs age limits for kids on social media
The government should take a similar approach to regulating social media as it does to substances like alcohol and cannabis: age-gate them
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Antisemitism in Canada no longer feels like ancient history
I grew up hearing about and experiencing baseline levels of antisemitism in Canada. But now, it feels blatant and threatening
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Lt.-Gen. Michel Maisonneuve: ‘I wanted to be controversial’
Lt.-Gen. Maisonneuve on the speech that got him cancelled, how he got invited to speak at the CPC Convention and what Trudeau should explain to Canadians