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POLITICS – Canadian politics is like a box of chocolates: you just never know

May 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

POLITICS, with apologies to Forrest Gump, is a like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. Maxime Bernier was pretty confident he was going to get the [Continue]

FRASER INSTITUTE – Feds’ per-person spending among highest in history

May 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

By JASON CLEMENS and MILAGROS PALACIOUS The Fraser Institute VANCOUVER – Much has been made of the federal government’s ramp-up in spending, particularly its [Continue]

MacFADYEN – Professional sports leagues confront homophobia

May 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

“STICKS AND STONES may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” So goes the adage we all learned as children – usually taught to us by protective parents [Continue]

SPORTS – The sports world’s TV-fed money pipeline is drying up

May 28, 2017 // 1 Comment

By BRUCE DOWBIGGIN CALGARY, Alta. – The Toronto Blue Jays are nearing a point of decision on a number of their highly-paid players. Will the 2017 edition of the club be [Continue]

POLITICS & BUSINESS – Sinking the myth of dangerous West Coast oil tanker traffic

May 27, 2017 // 4 Comments

VICTORIA – The expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline system, to ultimately move Alberta crude oil by tanker through the Port of Vancouver, was a [Continue]

ECONOMY – China offers a lesson on financing infrastructure

May 26, 2017 // 1 Comment

AS MEMBERS of a developed western economy, Canadians think we know all about capitalism. And, obviously, we believe our way of doing things is the best – we have nothing to [Continue]