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Op-Ed
"My Region First!"
It's a rallying cry we're hearing more these days, as regionalism becomes more a part of public policy.
The B.C. government recently approved the Trans Mountain pipeline that will haul Alberta oil to port. And it did so after squeezing up to a cool billion dollars out of Kinder Morgan — money which will go into an environmental protection fund.
Sounds good. Alberta gets an…
Op-Ed
Published in the Toronto Star on May 15, 2015
By Åke Blomqvist and Colin Busby
Åke Blomqvist is an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University and Health Policy Scholar at the C.D. Howe Institute, where Colin Busby is a Senior Policy Analyst.
Ontario’s minister of health, Eric Hoskins, announced plans this week for change in the province’s home and community care programs,…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on September 23, 2014
By Christopher Ragan
Christopher Ragan is an associate professor of economics at McGill University and a Research Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute.
Last week my friend sent me a link to a short video ranting about our monetary system. I immediately recognized it as another in a large collection of videos I have seen, many of…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on December 11, 2012
By Daniel Schwanen
Last Friday, the federal government announced an updated policy and revised guidelines regarding acquisitions by foreign state-owned enterprises in Canada. This accompanied the approvals of two multibillion-dollar SOE acquisitions: Nexen Inc. by China’s CNOOC Ltd. and of Progress Energy Resources Corp. by Malaysia’s Petronas…
Op-Ed
Published in the Chronicle Herald on September 27, 2012
By Colin Busby
With MPs back to work after their summer break, one task on their to-do list — found in the 2012 budget — is building a program to give financial support to employers of reservists on military leave. How they implement the plan will be crucial for Canadian employers and the reservists that they hire.
Your local hospital’s…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on April 26, 2012
By Gerard Boychuk
Having won the Alberta election, Premier Alison Redford is now setting her sights on providing leadership in establishing the national agenda on health-care reform. In doing so, she won’t be able to ignore the issue of patient wait times. Wildrose may have lost the election, but it did propose some ideas in this regard that are…
