For a Decentralized Vaccine Passport

It has already been over a year since the pandemic turned our lives upside down and governments severely curtailed our individual freedoms. Thankfully, the vaccination campaign is now in full swing, so we can hope…

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Debt Service Charges: Not the Main Type of Service We Should Be Funding

On Monday April 19, the federal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presented its first budget in over two years. In this publication, Montreal Economic Institute researchers shine a spotlight on the rapid growth of…

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Quebec’s COVID-19 LTC Disaster: Up to 6,700 Lives Could Have Been Saved

Nearly one year ago, the Quebec government decreed a temporary end to the transfer of COVID-19 patients to CHSLDs, Quebec’s long-term care centres. To this day, Quebec’s extremely high death count among seniors in CHSLDs…

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"The big takeaway from the pandemic era might not be the ease with which governments steal away our freedom by invoking the alleged necessities of a crisis. The real revelation is how little effort it takes to make many people like it."

‒​J.D. Tuccille, "The COVID-19 Pandemic Keeps Proving Deadly to Liberty," Reason Magazine, September 11, 2020.

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Regulatory quicksand holds back clean tech in Alberta

Sitting on these abandoned and orphaned wells instead of repurposing them is a forgone opportunity,…
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Financial Post, p. FP13

Let's not kid ourselves — Quebec's child care is no model

Let’s not, in the name of helping Canadian families, add to their problems by creating…
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Sun Media Papers

More federal labour regulations mean fewer jobs

The government cannot help workers by limiting their options. Unfortunately, the Liberals propose to do…
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