Economic Freedom Leads to Greater Income Mobility

For several years now, a number of observers have noted a slowdown in economic and social mobility in Canada. While some try to establish a link between economic inequality and social mobility (that is, individuals’…

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Meeting Canada’s Energy Needs (2021)

With COP26 just coming to a close in Glasgow, only 25% of Canadians (and 36% of Quebecers) are of the opinion that this conference helped find solutions to climate change. Health care and the economy…

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Canadian Institute for Climate Choices: Sink or Swim Report Sinks, Riddled with Holes

Recently, the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices released its Sink or Swim report detailing Canada’s economic prospects in the global low-carbon transition. A quick survey of the report uncovers many erroneous assumptions, seriously undermining its…

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Banning blood buys is bad business

It has been urged by ethicists and economists, including two Nobel Prize winners, that bans on…
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Let’s defang Bill 96

Bill 96 needlessly sows confusion regarding the eligibility of hundreds of thousands of anglophone Quebecers…
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On economics, Ford is the new Wynne

Advocates claim minimum wage hikes help workers, but evidence shows quite the opposite.
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