Alien invasive species one of the leading threats to global biodiversity

We need to protect policyholders while fostering a vibrant insurance industry

Prudent and careful regulation does not need to lead to over-regulation. The potential costs of taking an ultra-conservative approach to regulation can be extremely high.

There’s a truth to Mulcair’s oil sands assertion

Indeed, though his language is more confrontational, there is nothing essentially new in what Mulcair is saying.

Feds take an unintelligent approach to intelligence

Dumb move: Harper government decides to dismantle Office of the Inspector General of CSIS.

Imagine what the TransCanada highway would look like without rail

The Canada of the future will be served by a highly-integrated logistics network that includes shipping, ports, terminals, railways, trucking, and others: one that is capable of delivering goods efficiently, allowing industries to compete globally.

UN investigation underlines need for national food policy

Stop the hypocrisy: provincial liquor boards should support federal wine shipping law reform

Grits should focus more on reinventing tarnished brand than on leadership

The key to a Liberal revival rests in the party’s embrace of a mercurial, centre-right, centre-left approach.

Clamour of the Arab Spring

The myth of equality before the law, and the elitism of Parliamentary inviolability.

Comprehensive tax reform: The next priority for a Canadian growth agenda

The tax system does not support productivity growth adequately and is adding to business and personal costs.

While you were sleeping: feds’ policies make it easier to hire a cheaper you

With 1.4 million unemployed, many Canadians, too, are desperately seeking opportunity, and trying to avoid losing economic ground. As manufacturers continue to decamp to low-wage climes, and the public sector sheds jobs, the job options are sliding down the income scale. There, the growing competition is pushing the pay floor lower and lower.

Alberta a leader in ‘curing’ wait times in Canadian public health system

Creating a right-wing parallel universe and exploiting the name of Wilfrid Laurier

Not all opinions are created equal and readers should always be wary.

Inequality now Canadians’ top concern, displacing medicare as perennial front-runner

Something is happening in Canada that seems, in the context of a majority Harper government, counter-intuitive.

Federal Court rules on side of 6,000 CF members, and feds should not appeal it

This isn’t a game. Pain and suffering payments are often the only thing left for the military to know that their sacrifices meant something to Canada and to Canadians. To continue deducting their value also ‘extinguishes’ the value of military sacrifice.

Albertans triumph over faulty pollsters in most contested election in decades

The most obvious cause for the discrepancy in the polls and the election results is the last-minute momentum pollsters have difficulty sensing.

It’s Melanoma Monday: beware of tanning beds

In 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) reclassified tanning equipment as category-1 ‘carcinogenic to humans.’ Tobacco, arsenic and plutonium also hold court in this category.