The recent return of inflation closer to its two percent target simply means prices are rising at a more normal pace, not that affordability has improved—these challenges are going to persist for many years to come.
MAID is not a routine or ordinary health-care service, and there are legitimate ethical and religious reasons some practitioners and communities of care would opt out of its provision.
Even in the context of the size voters want, big or small, we can still ask about effectiveness. Because like any other organization, there may be an optimal size for government for maximum efficiency and output.
This episode of The Business of Government features host Amanda Lang in conversation with economist Livio Di Matteo. They discuss whether or not there is an optimal size of government.
If we want to preserve the hard-won gains that have made Canada one of the freest and most prosperous countries in the world, we have to rediscover a less satisfying politics: the work of governance.
A key issue is that Canadians accustomed to a long period of stable inflation and low interest rates have taken this for granted and built it into their economic expectations. The recent spike in inflation and especially interest rates has been an inconvenient lifestyle surprise.
The genius of prosperity is found not in government stimulus programs but in the ethic of work and discovery in average citizens who take pride in their labour. Prosperity and economic growth driven by ideas is a process initiated from the bottom up, not the top down.
The elite class is set to inevitably shrink, and it will be hard going as this happens. The case for doom is more convincing now than at any other time in the last 50 years or so.
This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses the Liberal government’s impending cabinet shuffle. Plus, the recent trend of Big Tech companies threatening to get tough with countries that try to regulate them. Is this an ominous sign for the future?
Religious women in Canada are having more children than non-religious women and report less anxiety about childbearing and parenthood, according to a new study by the faith-based think tank Cardus.
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