From the Blog

By allowing Canadians to voluntarily answer the mandatory long form census, Ottawa has lost a powerful weapon in the fight against whiny interest groups who use their own numbers as a way to justify more government spending.

Until a politician emerges as a better storyteller than his brethren or a party finds a different – but credible – policy answer to the day’s burning questions, minority governments will remain a fixture in the landscape of parliamentary democracies for years to come.

Being an energy superpower sit uneasily with Canadians: Alberta’s oil sands, the largest hydrocarbon deposit in the world, would be a blessing to many nations. Yet too many of our citizens see them as a burden.

It’s here! The Utopian ideal of free education for all is closer than ever thanks to the Interweb. While the ‘open classroom’ concept has been evolving for several years, many prestigious universities and colleges are now offering high quality audio and even video recordings online of their classes.