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Cuba moving toward economic freedom?

- Mark Milke, Director, Alberta Prosperity Project, Fraser Institute In Fidel Castro's recent interview with Atlantic magazine columnist Jeffrey Goldberg and in response to the question, "Is the Cuban economic model still worth exporting?", the retired dictator made this admission: "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us any more."
- Wednesday, October 13, 2010

BC lumber optimism grows because of new markets and products

Dr. Roslyn Kunin, BC Business Columnist, Troy Media It used to be so easy. All you had to do was look at housing start numbers for the US. That determined the health of the forest industry in British Columbia and, to a large extent, the state of the whole BC economy. This was when the woods sector had one dominant market, US home builders, and one prominent product, dimension lumber – of course in US dimensions. And it was the dominant player in BC’s economy.
- Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Cable and cell phone companies are finding a new way to fund the news

Terry Field, Media Columnist, Troy Media The proposed purchase of CTVglobemedia by telecommunications giant BCE (Bell Canada Enterprises) is another signal that the media world as we have known it is passing away, and is being replaced by something more dynamic and diverse.
- Monday, October 4, 2010

Time for oil industry to take a stand

Gwyn Morgan, Columnist, Troy Media What do the seal harvesters of Atlantic Canada have in common with workers in Alberta's oil sands? Both are targets of sustained attacks aimed at the demise of their livelihood. And in both cases, the main strategy of attackers is to eliminate the market.
- Saturday, October 2, 2010

Quebec turned its back on leading health care reform in Canada

By Mark Rovere, Associate Director, Health Policy Research Centre, Fraser Institute The Quebec government had the opportunity to be the first province to enact meaningful reform in health care, but instead it got cold feet.
- Friday, October 1, 2010

Subsidizing arenas has zero benefit for economy

By Mark Milke Director – Alberta Prosperity Project, and Niels Veldhuis, Director – Fiscal Studies Fraser Institute CALGARY, AB, and VANCOUVER, BC, Given the federal government's past, present and projected future red ink, Canadians could be forgiven for thinking Ottawa might prefer to pinch pennies rather than dole out hundreds of millions more in corporate welfare, this time to the most undeserving recipients of all, pro-sport franchises, most owned by billionaires.
- Friday, October 1, 2010

Global recovery hinges on U.S. fiscal restraint

WASHINGTON, D.C., Economists are concerned that fiscal policies in the United States producing an ever-growing debt atop high unemployment levels will make it impossible for Canadian and European economies to recover from the recession.
- Sunday, September 26, 2010

The OECD’s (mis)leading indicators

By Dr. Roslyn Kunin, BC Business Columnist, Troy Media Is the world economy headed into another downturn? Will Canada be dragged down with it? A quick glance at the composite leading indicators (CLI) released this month by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) might lead one to think so, but this would be wrong.
- Friday, September 24, 2010

Economy is in angels’ hands: economists don’t have a clue

By Todd Hirsch, Alberta Business Columnist, Troy Media Back in the ‘90s, Canadian songstresses Jane Siberry and k.d. Lang sang a hauntingly beautiful duet about the beauty and pain of life, and all its unanswerable questions. “Calling all angels, walk me through this one, don’t leave me alone. Calling all angels: we’re trying, we’re hoping . . . but we’re not sure how this goes.”
- Thursday, September 23, 2010

Cut-rate tuition is a bad deal for taxpayers

Ben Eisen, Policy Analyst, Frontier Centre for Public Policy Not all university students are created equal. While all of them may share the same fear of final exams, they don’t all share the same fear of the tuition bills they are paying.
- Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Naming “honour killings” necessary to prevent further violence against women

By Richelle Wiseman, Executive Director, Centre for Faith and the Media The death of 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez in 2007 was neither the first nor last honour killing in Canada. But details of her murder are better known than most. The statement of facts agreed to by the Crown and defense in the prosecution of Aqsa’s killers make it clear her father and brother strangled her because they thought she had brought shame to the family. To re-establish family “honour,” Aqsa had to die.
- Tuesday, September 21, 2010


Canadians ready for a change to health-care system

By Gwyn Morgan, Columnist, Troy Media "Will governments have the cash to meet the needs of our aging population without increasing debt to unsustainable levels?" This question, posed by Auditor-General Sheila Fraser to delegates at last month's general meeting of the Canadian Medical Association, is extremely important.
- Monday, September 13, 2010

Fatal downside of medical tourism

By Catherine Ford, Columnist, Troy Media Medical tourism is one of those benign phrases that conjures up happy thoughts of a little liposuction while lolling about on a beach in some exotic port.
- Sunday, September 12, 2010

Gun registry issue falls victim to inane political debate

By Catherine Ford, Columnist, Troy Media Canada’s federal government is tough on crime but soft on guns. It’s a case of being hard-nosed, but softheaded. How this is being played out leads one to believe irony is not Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s strong suit.
- Sunday, September 12, 2010

Image of mutilated Afghan woman makes it harder to say “I don’t care”

By Lauryn Oates, Projects Director, Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan CALGARY, AB, Sept. 2, 2010 - The security alerts, planning memos and latest news had arrived overnight from colleagues in Kabul, those working in the Afghan women’s movement and their ex-pat supporters. I started to sift through the pile and then stopped, frozen.
- Thursday, September 9, 2010

EU food-supplement clampdown overrides consumer choice

By Jonathan Emord, Columnist, Troy Media In 2011, hundreds of food supplements and thousands of health-benefit claims concerning food supplements will be banished from the European market as each European Union member state enforces the EU Supplements Directive of 2002.
- Thursday, August 26, 2010

Canada’s economic sun is now rising in the West

By Dr. Roslyn Kunin, BC Business Columnist, Troy Media Just as the sun rises in the East, there are those in western Canada who have historically looked to the provinces of ‘Inner Canada’ – Ontario and Quebec – to generate the well-being of the West. Times have changed; Canada’s economic sun is now rising in the West.
- Thursday, August 26, 2010

Canada well-positioned to take advantage of the new economic order

By Gwyn Morgan, Columnist, Troy Media What a difference a decade makes. Who would have predicted 10 years ago that the main thing shielding the once invincible American greenback from apocalyptic collapse of confidence would be China's weekly purchases of U.S. Treasury bills? Or that a Chinese credit rating agency's downgrade of the debt of the U.S., U.K. and France to below that of China would seriously shake international markets? And who would have thought that a newly-elected British Prime Minister would make India his top priority for a foreign visit?
- Friday, August 20, 2010


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