commentary

By Jason Clemens and Jock Finlayson Updated: April 14, 2023  Commentary  The late U.S. president Ronald Reagan famously said in the 1980 election that “Recession is when your neighbour loses…

By John Robson Updated: March 27, 2023 Commentary Once upon a time Ontario, Canada’s largest province economically and demographically, was governed by spendthrift Liberals with an unshakeable faith in government’s…

By Michael Zwaagstra Updated: March 25, 2023  Commentary Suppose you lived in a neighbourhood with several different grocery stores. If you don’t like what one store has to offer, you…

 By Tom Czitron March 25, 2023Updated: March 25, 2023 Commentary In the mid-1970s I was a struggling business and economics student. I paid for my tuition and personal expenses with…

Once individual freedoms are lost, they are very hard to gain back Cory Morgan Commentary The default setting for Canadian rights should be freedom. Incursions upon any freedoms by the…

Cory Morgan Commentary The story is the same in every province in Canada. Emergency rooms are overwhelmed, hospitals are short-staffed, and ICU space can never seem to keep up with…

Cory Morgan Commentary The Rouleau inquiry into Canada’s use of the Emergencies Act in Ottawa is about half done. The public airing of grievances has been going for weeks and…

Michael Taube Commentary Ontario Premier Doug Ford passed Bill 28, or the Keeping Students in Class Act, on Nov. 3 to prevent roughly 55,000 education support workers represented by the…

Rex Murphy Commentary Ontario is a peculiar place. There have been two full years of school closures—of dubious necessity—and now that the COVID regime has finally been lifted, just as…

  Livio Di Matteo Commentary In response to the pandemic, governments in Canada launched an unprecedented wave of spending. In Ottawa, the federal government has sought to make that wave…