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Fixing the Fisc: Free Advice for Canada’s Next Prime Minister

Fixing the Fisc: Free Advice for Canada’s Next Prime Minister

For as long as Mark Carney is Canada’s new prime minister, and beyond that into the outcome of the upcoming...

Life on hold – How Canada’s drug approval delays endanger patients: Nigel S.B. Rawson and John Adams

Life on hold – How Canada’s drug approval delays endanger patients: Nigel S.B. Rawson and John Adams

Health care across Canada is in crisis. In addition to known burdens of disease and therapies, Canada’s processes have become...

Historic injustice: Canada’s misguided betrayal of school system founder Egerton Ryerson

Historic injustice: Canada’s misguided betrayal of school system founder Egerton Ryerson

Canada’s best known school system founder Egerton Ryerson and the United States’ Horace Mann are each towering figures in the...

Canada After Trump: Why the Indo-Pacific Can’t Be an Afterthought

Canada After Trump: Why the Indo-Pacific Can’t Be an Afterthought

Canada, like much of the world, anticipated a transactional and volatile ‘Trump 2.0’ administration. Even so, the ‘shock and awe’...

Fuelling addiction – The “safe supply” disaster

Fuelling addiction – The “safe supply” disaster

As the death toll from the ongoing opioid poisoning crisis in Canada continues to rise, jurisdictions across the country struggle...

Canada’s Global Standing: Prosperous, Progressive, and Peaceful

Canada’s Global Standing: Prosperous, Progressive, and Peaceful

Canadian national spirit is high. The positive emotional reaction to the Team Canada hockey victory over the U.S. in the...



Breaking barriers: How provinces can drive Canada’s prosperity by unlocking trade and labour mobility

Breaking barriers: How provinces can drive Canada’s prosperity by unlocking trade and labour mobility

Canada’s economy is tightly interconnected across provinces, but significant barriers to internal trade and limited worker mobility are holding back...

Canada’s greenwashing amendment: A failure of process and policy

Canada’s greenwashing amendment: A failure of process and policy

On April 30, 2024, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance pushed through a late-stage amendment to the Competition...

Interprovincial trade arguments are vastly overstated

Interprovincial trade arguments are vastly overstated

A lot of public discourse in Canada right now is about how we need to urgently remove interprovincial trade barriers...

Swimming against the tide: The case for salmon fish farming in British Columbia

Swimming against the tide: The case for salmon fish farming in British Columbia

Ken S. Coates explains how salmon farming could benefit Canada by providing economic stability to coastal communities, fostering greater co-operation...

The Court Challenges Program – How your tax dollars fuel social justice activism through the courts

The Court Challenges Program – How your tax dollars fuel social justice activism through the courts

The federal government is spending several million dollars a year to do indirectly what it is unwilling to do directly...

Canada at a Crossroads – Volume 1: The housing crunch

Canada at a Crossroads – Volume 1: The housing crunch

Canada is at a crossroads. The issues confronting Canada in 2025 go beyond mere setbacks and can more accurately be...

DeepSeek’s challenge and Canada’s urgent need to reignite its AI ambitions
Trump’s Chokepoint Playbook and How to Deal with It

Trump’s Chokepoint Playbook and How to Deal with It

Once hailed as cornerstones of economic efficiency and globalization, global supply chains have transformed into geopolitical battlegrounds, where countries exploit...



Trump’s Non-Stop Trade War: Tariffs Are Only the Beginning

Trump’s Non-Stop Trade War: Tariffs Are Only the Beginning

U.S. President Donald Trump made many promises on the campaign trail, but repeatedly returned to the application of tariffs as...

A Faulty Case: Deconstructing Trump’s Call for a Trade War on Canada

A Faulty Case: Deconstructing Trump’s Call for a Trade War on Canada

On February 1, 2025, Canada found itself on the brink of a devastating trade war with the United States. As...

Promoting excellence – or activism? Equity, diversity, and inclusion at Canada’s federal granting agencies

Promoting excellence – or activism? Equity, diversity, and inclusion at Canada’s federal granting agencies

Higher education in Canada has reached a tenuous moment. For too long, it has focused on “equity, diversity, and inclusion”...

The Arctic Submarine Narrative

This summer, the Government of Canada confirmed its intention to procure up to 12 conventionally powered submarines to replace the...

Wetlands at work: Providing safety benefits to us and our communities
Canadians continue to experience long waits for MRIs and CT scans
India in 2025: The Year Ahead in Politics, Economics, and Foreign Affairs

India in 2025: The Year Ahead in Politics, Economics, and Foreign Affairs

India enters 2025 with elements of continuity and change. Prime Minister Narendra Modi leads a new coalition government in New...

TCI Energy Brief: Early TMX Pipeline Expansion Data Reveals China’s Emerging Role as a Significant Buyer of Canadian Crude, Offering Some Diversification From the U.S. Market

TCI Energy Brief: Early TMX Pipeline Expansion Data Reveals China’s Emerging Role as a Significant Buyer of Canadian Crude, Offering Some Diversification From the U.S. Market

Completion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) project in May 2024 marked a transformative moment for Canada’s crude oil...

Why is Canada falling behind the science in treating gender-distressed youth?: Chan Kulatunga-Moruzi

Why is Canada falling behind the science in treating gender-distressed youth?: Chan Kulatunga-Moruzi

Primum non cencere – do no harm – is a foundational principle of modern medicine. And yet, in Canada, advocates...

Canada’s national pharmacare plan – boon or bane?

Canada’s national pharmacare plan – boon or bane?

National pharmacare, as proposed by the federal government, will not improve patient access to innovative medicines without major changes to...

Getting Canada back on track: How to build major projects in the coming decade: Jack Middleton

Getting Canada back on track: How to build major projects in the coming decade: Jack Middleton

Can Canada still build big projects or are we doomed to infrastructure decay and with it a stagnant and weak...

The Challenge is Global: Getting ready for the Trump 2.0 roller-coaster

The Challenge is Global: Getting ready for the Trump 2.0 roller-coaster

Americans voted for Trump with full knowledge of who he was and what he intended to do. The impacts of...

To respond to U.S. tariffs, Canada should hit Trump where it hurts

To respond to U.S. tariffs, Canada should hit Trump where it hurts

Canada is on tenterhooks as Donald Trump prepares to be sworn in as 47th President of the United States of...

Trump and the Asia Pacific: Five Key Questions Shaping 2025

Trump and the Asia Pacific: Five Key Questions Shaping 2025

Donald Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency will loom large over the Indo-Pacific in 2025. The global economic and security...

Legacy of Niilo Edwards will live on as a beacon of co-operation and reconciliation
Trudeau should have learned from Sir John A. – not tried to erase him.
Canada and America First: A New Way Forward

Canada and America First: A New Way Forward

40 years ago, the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada, also known as the Macdonald...

5 Things We Learned about Canada and Asia in 2024

5 Things We Learned about Canada and Asia in 2024

In 2024, a record number of voters across Asia exercised their democratic rights and, in many cases, used the ballot...

Canada Post’s Strike Highlights Need for Fundamental Reform
Does Emissions Pricing Hurt Affordability? Quantifying the Effects on Canadian Households

Does Emissions Pricing Hurt Affordability? Quantifying the Effects on Canadian Households

This report investigates the effects of emissions pricing, such as the federal fuel charge or B.C. carbon tax. It focuses...

Explainer: Democracy Under Pressure: Yoon's Failed Martial Law and South Korea's Political Turmoil

Explainer: Democracy Under Pressure: Yoon's Failed Martial Law and South Korea's Political Turmoil

South Korea entered a sudden political crisis on December 3 when President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law — an...

Trudeau government out of touch with economic reality in Canada
Free Russia: How Canada and the West can counter Russia’s authoritarian regime and help democracy flourish

Free Russia: How Canada and the West can counter Russia’s authoritarian regime and help democracy flourish

The long-term security of Canada and its allies hinges not only on the outcome of the war in Ukraine but...

Trump’s tariff threat is about borders, not trade

Trump’s tariff threat is about borders, not trade

Late Monday night, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump used his Truth Social platform to announce he would impose across-the-board 25 per...

Canada-Indonesia Trade Agreement Marks a New Chapter in Indo-Pacific Relations

Canada-Indonesia Trade Agreement Marks a New Chapter in Indo-Pacific Relations

On November 15, Canada and Indonesia announced the completion of the negotiations for the Canada-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)...