At this point, it is as well-worn a cliché as any to say the war on drugs has failed, by any chosen metric. According to some statistical measures, 2020 has…
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OPINION | The Niki Ashton Case and the Need for Balance on COVID-19 Restrictions
With spiking case counts across the country during the second wave of COVID-19, many Canadians were understandably upset when reports came that a number of politicians jetted off to exotic…
OPINION | Why don’t ethics scandals stick anymore?
For many observers, one of the biggest surprises of the 2019 federal election was how little, after all the coverage they garnered, the SNC-Lavalin scandal seemed to matter to the…
OPINION | Of Firearms and “Root Causes”: Looking Beyond Easy Answers on Gun Violence
The key virtue of progressive thinking on criminal justice policy has been its generally correct observation that tackling crime in a sustainable fashion must look at the “root causes” of…
OPINION | Canada’s Reverse Robin Hood Housing Policy
Much has been written in recent months about the exploding cost of homeownership across Canada in recent months. Once a problem mainly confined to major urban centers such as Toronto…
OPINION | Canada Should Experiment with German-Style Universities
Recent analysis has shown that up to 70 percent of new jobs in Canada in the next ten years will require a post-secondary education, but, despite overall attainment averages that…
OPINION | There Are Risks to Leaving Afghanistan: Biden is Right to Do It Anyways
Joe Biden’s decision to follow through on the outgoing Trump administration’s commitment to withdraw US combat forces from Afghanistan has been a controversial one. US allies have expressed concern that…
OPINION | Looking to the Past Won’t Help Us Understand Post-COVID Economics
In broad strokes, the current major economic policy debate in the United States boils down to a simple question: is the risk in doing too much, or too little? In…
OPINION | The Singapore Fantasy and the Impossibility of Benevolent Autocracy
The reflexive denunciation of “populism” on the part of most of the media and political class is most often deployed as a tactic against parties or individuals of the far…
OPINION | It’s Past Time for Canada to Re-Engage with Iran
The case of the abduction of the children of Iranian-Canadian woman Alison Azer by her ex-husband to Iran has brought the often-abstract world of geopolitics down to an all-too-relatable human…
