Commentary

By Matthew Horwood When the markets took a plunge on Aug. 5, it was partly attributed to the Bank of Japan’s recent decision to raise its key interest rate to…

By Peter Menzies  Commentary Once tools are available to suppress, punish, and intimidate speech, there is no shortage of people willing to use them. Of that there was perhaps no…

By Daniel Rios  Commentary Thousands of books have been written on personal finance, financial planning, investments, debt management, and the topic of money in general. Upon reading such books, a…

By Barry W. Bussey  Commentary Since 2016, when Jordan Peterson criticized amendments to Canada’s Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code to include “gender identity and expression” as prohibited grounds…

By Cory Morgan  Commentary Good intentions don’t change the outcome of bad policies. Self-styled addiction experts surely had the best interests of addicts in mind as they promoted policies of…

By Conrad Black Commentary The fluctuating U.S. stock market, and particularly the Dow Jones Industrial Average descending by over 1,000 points in one day on Aug. 5, have naturally raised…

By Mark Ford  Commentary You have a dream. You are on a beach of golden sand. You have a large bucket, large enough to carry a million dollars’ worth of…

By Matthew Lau Commentary Canada already has a severe shortage of doctors, but recent federal government policy failures—even those seemingly having nothing to do with health care—are making things worse.…

By Conrad Black  Commentary As the colossal fear-mongering operation that has accompanied the obsessive pre-occupation with climate change is abandoned by former adherents—an operation that strains credulity with the uneventful…

By Conrad Black  Commentary July 1 has come again and naturally raises thoughts, however cursorily, of what Canada has been in the 157 years since Confederation was launched on July…