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Classical liberalism gets a bad rap these days. The right attacks it as self-centred hedonism, while the left accuses it of selfish egoism. Classical liberals, critics say, elevate liberty to…
Read MoreIs there an optimal size for a subnational jurisdiction (think a state or province) if you are looking to maximize economic freedom? Surely bigger is always better, right? No, as…
Read MoreThe co-founder of Moderna Inc., one of the most high profile companies to produce an effective mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, did not himself get a Moderna shot. He got a Pfizer…
Read MoreCanada’s standard of living has been in steady decline for 40 years. Parents in the post-war years between 1945 and 1976 could expect their children to make twice the salary…
Read MoreChina’s Belt and Road Initiative — President Xi Xingping’s signature policy initiative — is a massive trade infrastructure project launched in 2013 designed to connect Asia, Europe, and Africa through…
Read MoreRetired Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy, Vice-Admiral Paul Maddison joins Geoff Costeloe and James Robertson on their podcast Unbound: Fearlessly Exploring Issues That Matter to discuss Canada’s national security…
Read MoreThe upcoming Assembly of First Nations election for National Chief on July 7 comes at a critical time for Canada’s Indigenous peoples. There are hundreds of bodies being discovered in…
Read MoreDoes geothermal energy have potential to provide the abundant and safe clean energy we have been waiting for? Economist Eli Dourado believes so. He argues in this blog post that the emerging next-generation technologies can be cheap and abundant in theory as well as practice.
Read MoreThe classics are revered, but are they relevant? Professor and author of the book Strategic Humanism Claudia Hauer joins Russ Roberts on his podcast EconTalk for a wide-ranging discussion that touches on what we can learn from old texts, the ways in which technology shapes us, and how we can preserve our liberal academic education in the modern world.
Read MoreWhile a necessary response to pandemic shutdowns, many have been quick to trumpet the benefits of distributed work and paint it as a permanent innovation. Social entrepreneur and businesswoman Zita…
Read MoreOntario is finally starting to open up from its pandemic lockdowns, but another daunting challenge looms: as this new Fraser Institute blog outlines, the province’s fiscal situation is in dire…
Read MoreThe discovery of mass unmarked graves containing bodies of hundreds of Indigenous people, many of them children, at historical residential school sites has brought into sustained focus the suffering of…
Read MoreThe re-opening of the Canada-U.S. land border has been postponed by the government of Canada until at least July 21. At that point it will have been 487 days since…
Read MoreAlberta is in a precarious fiscal position. A new Fraser Institute publication examines the situation and highlights that a new report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer includes Alberta within a…
Read MoreIn examining the trends up to the round of federal provincial budgets released in spring of 2021, former federal deputy minister Louis Lévesque finds that, even prior to the pandemic,…
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