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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America the Beautiful
Reflections on the decay of the US mystique
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Iran’s Bizarre Military Bazaar
Aircraft and armaments on Kish Island, an earthly paradise designed to win over the international community
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Continentalism of a Different Stripe
Are Canadian provinces and the blue states in the U.S. quietly forging a radical new
North American Union ? This American says, “Yes.”
