Troy Media

Troy Media s issue-driven: as former journalists, we look at the issues from a perspective that is familiar to the media. We tell stories.

Most Recent Articles by Troy Media:

Britain’s coming carbon levy will hurt poor the most April 22, 2009
Britain is about to get very aggressive about becoming a low carbon economy
Saskatchewan’s economy strongest in Canada April 22, 2009
Saskatchewan will be the only province in Canada to post real economic growth in 2009
Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights April 22, 2009
Shaking up Canada's human rights commissions
Kneecapping the competition April 14, 2009
The unfair tax advantage for Crown Corporations
We don’t need newspapers, we need journalism April 13, 2009
Delivery of Information
Reality Check: Diagnosing the future of healthcare in Canada April 11, 2009
Embrace prevention and wellness as the first principle of health care, Cost of Healthcare
Newspapers in transition: Focus on the ‘news’, forget the ‘paper’ April 8, 2009
Newspapers have become dull shadows of their former selves
Five ways to help save the earth - and money April 6, 2009
Hypocrisy, Green causes, Ted Turner, Al Gore,
Heavy subsidies sustain Spain’s wind power April 6, 2009
Wind power has grown in Spain only because of the size of the subsidies involved
Time to shift the oil sands debate to Canada’s advantage April 2, 2009
Rhetorical emphasis on climate change, clean energy and energy security
Fusion energy ready to become reality April 2, 2009
Alberta/Canada fusion energy program
New Brunswick gets economic stimulus right March 31, 2009
Cutting taxes, Corporate taxes, personal taxes
Euro facing serious challenges March 31, 2009
Current global financial crisis could see the end of the Euro
Don’t ban homework March 30, 2009
A New Frontier Centre backgrounder on education policy points out homework isn't a wasted activity - unlike television
Earth Hour tokenism March 27, 2009
Raise awareness of climate change, Copenhagen Consensus
Resilience of Western Canada’s economy grounds for optimism March 26, 2009
To focus on the price of oil, or on the price of any particular commodity, is to miss the western Canadian forest for the tree
The investment cycle March 26, 2009
Understanding the business cycle, the stock market cycle, and the emotional cycle
Open-source collaboration key to auto sector survival March 13, 2009
Golden Horseshoe, Manufacturing, Automotive industries
Prairie provinces need a fiscal constitution to control spending March 2, 2009
New Frontier Centre study shows how a “living wage” policy is the wrong way to help the working-poor in Calgary
Living with a little less stuff February 27, 2009
High leverage was a key cause of the financial crisis, Debt-fuelled consumerism
Building a river to the southern U.S. February 27, 2009
The ultimate infrastructure project
Obama COOLing protectionist rhetoric? February 26, 2009
Buy American, Smoot-Hawley, tariffs on imports, NAFTA
Mr. Obama goes to Ottawa February 17, 2009
The 21st-century protectionism?
Canadian prudence trumps Obama charisma every time February 16, 2009
Financial challenges facing Canada and the United States
Poverty measures need measuring February 13, 2009
546,000 British Columbians, 13 per cent of the total population, live in poverty
Dalton McGuinty’s “green” illusions on jobs February 13, 2009
Create 50,000 new jobs, putting people to work building windmills
Simple amendment needed to protect free speech in Alberta February 12, 2009
Dan Shapiro, Research Associate, Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership
The extraordinary madness of the stimulus crowd February 9, 2009
The recent worldwide craze for “stimulus” spending
Beware the pain-for-no-gain economic scenario January 31, 2009
Bailouts, spending, printing money, running deficits
End equalization squabbling: Toss the GST to the provinces January 23, 2009
Ottawa prepared to recession's effect