The real causes of the crisis in Venezuela.

The increasing role of communications technologies in our economy.

The benefits for consumers and workers of liberalizing mobile food vending in Montreal.

The benefits for consumers and workers of liberalizing mobile food vending in Montreal.

Since 2013, there has been a loosening of the decades-long ban on mobile food vending in Montreal. Such steps place Montreal squarely within a wider movement throughout North America to allow greater entrepreneurship at the municipal level. In spite of this positive step, however, the large potential benefits to both consumers and workers are being undermined by heavy regulation. This Viewpoint highlights those benefits and explains how the regulatory framework surrounding mobile food vendors in Montreal remains much too constraining.

Publication of a Research Paper analyzing various aspects of the Canadian telecommunications industry related to competition.

Quebec is set to make it too difficult for ride-sharing companies to operate legally.

The potential impact of various proposed energy policies on consumers and taxpayers in Alberta.

The federal government and the CRTC should not repeat the mistakes of recent years by intervening in the broadband sector as they have in the wireless sector, argues the MEI in the 2016 edition of a Research Paper entitled The State of Competition in Canada’s Telecommunications Industry. The Paper notes that 96% of Canadian households already had access to download speeds of 5 Mbps in 2014, with 77% of households subscribing to such a service, a trend that has shown strong growth in recent years.

Publication of a Research Paper analyzing various aspects of the Canadian telecommunications industry related to competition.