Municipalities must take the lead in getting the lead out
By Paz Gómez Research Associate Frontier Centre for Public Policy Canadians have been exposed to…
Rethink restrictions on private health insurance
In its sole reliance on government providing first-dollar coverage of medically necessary services, Canada’s health-care…
Trudeau tax relief plan will do little for economic growth
By Jake Fuss and Finn Poschmann The Fraser Institute According to a Parliamentary Budget Officer…
Taxpayers are often the losers in the incentive game
When Toronto-based Wattpad chose Halifax over Calgary as the site of its second headquarters last…
Embracing the unfamiliar down home
If you live in one of Canada’s muscular metropolises, you might think about the Atlantic…
A political matchup made in heaven
Let us, for a moment, imagine an alternate universe in which the leading candidates for…
Take this job and … uh, love it?
Few jobs are uniformly good. But some are unrelentingly awful and you remember them as…
One patient, one record: the folly of Nova Scotia’s latest health plan
Is anyone surprised to learn that credit reporting agencies, Facebook and retail stores scan many…
Gigging it in the free world
Are you weary of your reliable job? Do your paid vacation, company pension plan and…
Into the great wide open: Nova Scotia’s space ambitions
On some glittering summer’s day, this decade or maybe next, you might find me rusticating…