Flying underneath the radar of Ottawa’s recent policy reversal are at least three arguments that could imperil the carbon tax’s legality
Category: Commentary
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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
Posted inCoffee with Canadians
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
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Dr. Alika Lafontaine, on his CMA presidency ‘sprint’
‘There’s an adage in heath care: You can have things fast, you can have them less expensive or you can have them high-quality, and you can only choose two.’
Posted inEnergy & Environment
The ‘missing middle’ in Canada’s critical minerals strategy
Governments have thrown billions at upstream and downstream mining and manufacturing, while mid-stream processing of critical minerals is overlooked
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Letter to the Editor regarding the Online News Act
It is not clear whether Ottawa has the constitutional authority to pass the Online News Act