How NAFTA Changed the Way We Eat
Millennials may have popularized avocado toast, but free trade made it a sensation
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Canada’s Self-inflicted Trade Crisis With the US
We have linked our economy to the whims of a large and mercurial customer, and now stand to face the consequences
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Chrystia Freeland Wants to Fix the Twenty-First Century
Why Canada’s foreign-affairs minister believes saving NAFTA will help save the world
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You’re Paying Too Much for Milk
The idea that Canada’s protectionist policies benefit mom-and-pop farms is mostly propaganda
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The Case for Free Trade within Canada
It’s actually harder to sell goods and services between provinces and territories than to the United States
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Cuba’s Tipping Point
The US embargo has not yet fallen, but the island is already changing
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Editor’s Note
In 1982, with the global economy in recession, Liberal prime minister Pierre Trudeau established a Royal Commission, chaired by former finance minister Donald Macdonald, to look into remedies. The Macdonald …
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Like most Canadians, I have mixed feelings about the United States. On the one hand, I admire what it has wrought. New York. Harvard. Richard Meier. Apple. Ella Fitzgerald. The …
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The Conservative government’s plan to create a national securities regulator came to naught late last year when the Supreme Court ruled that it would be unconstitutional; our Constitution gives provinces …
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The Only Risk is Wanting to Stay
Colombian militias are clearing civilians out of the countryside and into gang-controlled slums, to the benefit of foreign corporations. Is this really the ideal free trade partner for Canada? A field report from Colombia’s sea of displacement
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