I'm not sure why so much very good poetry came out of the First World War, but it did. Perhaps this was the last war that began with some sense of war as a noble, aristocratic adventure.
Blog - Fraser Forum
November 11, 2015
3:00AM
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November 10, 2015
2:58PM
The just-released Parliamentary Budget Officer report projects deficits in every year from 2016/17 to 2020/21.
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November 10, 2015
9:15AM
Like most taxes, the land-transfer tax does more than transfer money from homebuyers to the government—it stifles economic activity and makes moving less attractive.
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November 10, 2015
4:00AM
City council recently voted unanimously to support a 20-year plan aimed at reducing poverty in Toronto—a laudable initiative if council avoids enacting policies that may do more harm than good.
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November 9, 2015
10:30AM
The Quebec secondary school rankings are out and once again they offer evidence that, at some schools, academic results are improving.
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November 9, 2015
4:00AM
There’s no shortage of issues facing the new Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister, Carolyn Bennett, including the state of housing and infrastructure on reserves.
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November 6, 2015
12:44PM
President Obama has finally rejected the Keystone XL pipeline.
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November 6, 2015
8:53AM
An "implicit tax" is implicit only in the sense that it doesn’t officially appear in the income tax code.
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November 6, 2015
4:00AM
As one of his first policy proposals, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to replace Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system with a system that “[better] reflects and represents” Canadians and makes “every vote count.”
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November 5, 2015
12:34PM
Years of adhering to the status-quo and simply pumping money into the system has done little to address the fundamental problems with Canada's health-care system.
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