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Terence Corcoran: The Pope on AI 'slavery' versus liberation

New book indirectly challenges Pope Leo's fearful authoritarian approach to new technology

Terence Corcoran FP Comment

Pope Leo XIV's encyclical letter titled "Magnifica Humanitas," focused on the rise of artificial intelligence, in The Vatican on May 25.

Jack Mintz: Rising government debt will hit Canada, too

Jack M. Mintz FP Comment

Peace Tower at the Centre Block on Parliament Hill is seen from the National War Memorial in Ottawa on March. 4, 2026.

Opinion: Capacity, not market power, is grain transport’s big problem

Mary-Jane Bennett, Special to Financial Post FP Comment

Railcars with containers sit idle near the Roberts bank Super Port after a strike by railway workers on August 23, 2024, in Delta, B.C.

Terence Corcoran: Biting the Invisible Hand once again

Terence Corcoran FP Comment

Peter Foster's ninth book, Why We Bite the Invisible Hand: The Psychology of Anti-Capitalism, has been translated into Italian: Psicologia dell'anticapitalismo: Perché disprezziamo la mano invisible.

William Watson: Is 'wed thy neighbour' a problem for policy?

William Watson FP Comment

A plastic wedding couple embrace on top a pile of coins.

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Opinion: Stop force-feeding Canadians’ viewing choices

The CRTC's tripling of the CanCon tax for streaming services couldn't come at a worse time but wouldn't be good policy at any time

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David Clement, Special to Financial Post 1 day ago FP Comment
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Bjorn Lomborg: Al Gore’s inaccurate untruths distorted policy

Climate alarmism raised awareness but it skewed policy toward expansive emissions reductions rather than research into cheap clean energy

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Bjorn Lomborg, Special to Financial Post 2 days ago FP Comment
Matthew Lau: Biased science reports fuelled climate alarm

First the UN tilted its synopsis of 'the science' and then the media picked the juiciest bits from that. No wonder policy turned deep green

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Matthew Lau 2 days ago FP Comment
Joe Oliver: We can’t afford a $20-billion Pathway to nowhere

That's too much for a project whose only real purpose is political cover for a prime minister whose caucus is divided on pipelines

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Joe Oliver 2 days ago FP Comment
William Watson: Let’s cut back on the circuses spending

Some people say governments should maximize citizens' fun. Let's let Canadians decide on their own how much fun their money buys

William Watson 3 days ago FP Comment

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Opinion: The new Alberta-Ottawa agreement to do nothing in particular

In the followup to their fall MOU, Ottawa and Alberta forge another agreement to agree to things in the future, but without details on how

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Andrew Roman, Special to Financial Post 3 days ago FP Comment
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Terence Corcoran: Canada Strong risks making Canada weaker

Carbon capture and pricing are artificial costs that will burden the pipeline and the Canadian economy

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Terence Corcoran May 22, 2026 FP Comment
Tom Flanagan: First Nations must be as clear and accountable as other governments

An amended or even new financial transparency act may be needed. First Nations should step up to take part in writing it

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Tom Flanagan, Special to Financial Post May 22, 2026 FP Comment
Opinion: If we’re oil-rich, why is gasoline so expensive?

Retailers, wholesalers, importers and exporters all operate in one global market. That competition generates a single world price

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Kent Fellows, Special to Financial Post May 22, 2026 FP Comment
William Watson: Trump chickens out on beef tariff cuts

Ground beef is up 25 per cent since Trump came back to office. Cuts in tariffs would help but because ranchers objected he has backed off

William Watson May 21, 2026 FP Comment

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Joe Oliver: Mark Carney really is a WEF Davos man

The World Economic Forum creed is corporatism, not conventional liberal capitalism. Using business for social purposes is Carney's way, too

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Joe Oliver May 21, 2026 FP Comment
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Opinion: Trump wants higher drug prices in Canada. That might not be bad

Our insistence on low prices for patented drugs may result in both less and slower access to life-saving new medicines for Canadians

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Nigel Rawson and Andrew Darke, Special to Financial Post May 21, 2026 FP Comment
Terence Corcoran: Mark Carney’s '(climate) tragedy of the horizon' no longer exists

The latest scientific research knocks the prime minister's ‘implausible’ catastrophic climate scenario

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Terence Corcoran May 20, 2026 FP Comment
Matthew Lau: Child-care money shouldn’t be funding the revolution

Following child-care money indicates some is going to organizations whose politics are far outside the Canadian mainstream

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Matthew Lau May 20, 2026 FP Comment
$Whether it’s for child care or anti-racism programs the track record of governments seems always to be one of sending taxpayers’ money to all the wrong places.$
William Watson: Let’s GoFundIt: Toonies for two-four (Sussex Drive)

If Ottawa can't get a prime minister into 24 Sussex Drive by the end of this decade, it should give up its grandiose plans for the economy

William Watson May 19, 2026 FP Comment

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Philip Cross: We ignore slow economic growth at our peril

Canadians think a lot of ourselves but our self-images are put in doubt by incomes falling farther and farther behind those in the U.S.

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Philip Cross May 19, 2026 FP Comment
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Terence Corcoran: Trump versus Xi — Who is the most or least capitalist?

The bigger question: Is China capitalist or socialist?

Terence Corcoran May 15, 2026 FP Comment
Jack Mintz: Affordability trumps productivity in Australian budget

Tax measures to help low-income people cope with higher prices are being financed by higher taxes on investment, which won't help growth

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Jack M. Mintz May 15, 2026 FP Comment
Opinion: Rites of summer highlight the rights of individuals

Montrealers are allowed to sit and drink on sidewalk patios but vaping is tightly controlled though its danger is much less than tobacco's

Ian Irvine, Special to Financial Post May 15, 2026 FP Comment
William Watson: Is it NATO’s new Canadian bank that's rattling Putin?

The vicious interprovincial infighting over where to put the new financial institution reveals the darkest parts of the Canadian character

William Watson May 14, 2026 FP Comment

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Opinion: Ottawa as ‘guardian’ is precisely what’s wrong with health care

The federal government should not be policing how the provinces deliver health care, so long as they stick to the principle of universality

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Nadeem Esmail and Mackenzie Moir, Special to Financial Post May 14, 2026 FP Comment
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Opinion: Why would anyone want to join the EU?

Submitting to the Brussels bureaucracy would be a high price to pay for a mainly symbolic independence from the U.S.

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Tammy Nemeth, Special to Financial Post May 14, 2026 FP Comment
Terence Corcoran: From Hormuz to farms and food, a crisis is looming

For developing countries, the spectre of food shortages due to a lack of fertilizer and soaring prices is a frightening one

Terence Corcoran May 13, 2026 FP Comment
Matthew Lau: 'Circular lobbying' has hurt child care in Canada

The federal government hands out money to groups that use it to lobby for ever more government spending. How does this doom loop end well?

Matthew Lau May 13, 2026 FP Comment
Opinion: Canada’s nicotine policy needs a little principled pragmatism

Canada has the worst of both worlds: a legal system too rigid to function and an illicit market expanding without constraints

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Fred DeLorey, Special to Financial Post May 13, 2026 FP Comment

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William Watson: If I were an Albertan, I’d resent central Canada, too

Separatism isn't about pipelines, but Alberta's struggle to get a new pipeline approved is a powerful symbol of powerlessness

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William Watson May 12, 2026 FP Comment
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Some Canadians see their doctor a lot!

Curtailing over-use and abuse of the medical system could free up resources to help undeserved Canadians

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Colin Craig, Special to Financial Post May 12, 2026 FP Comment
Terence Corcoran: The Devil wears subsidized Prada

Film and TV producers cash in on international subsidy wars

Terence Corcoran May 8, 2026 FP Comment
Jack Mintz: Carney wants to play in the economic minor leagues

Our new best buds in Europe have notoriously slow economic growth. With our per capita GDP now just two-thirds the U.S., we'll fit right in

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Jack M. Mintz May 8, 2026 FP Comment
Opinion: How our procurement policy perversely works against Canadian startups and innovators

Ottawa's purchasers require massive paper dumps that are easy for big, established, often foreign companies but not for Canadian startups

Philip Green and Will Caddell, Special to Financial Post May 8, 2026 FP Comment

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William Watson: Do we really need a policy a day from Ottawa?

Budgets and fiscal updates remind us how incredibly busy the feds are. If they tried fewer things but did them better, Canadians would benefit

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William Watson May 7, 2026 FP Comment
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Matthew Lau: Three reasons conservatives should oppose unions

Unions raise unemployment for low-wage workers, raise prices for consumers and raise hell for everyone else with their radical politics

Matthew Lau May 7, 2026 FP Comment
Terence Corcoran: Carney is wrong. Trump’s America is not a new normal

There are no convincing reasons to assume the U.S. is in a fundamental state of deterioration that cannot be reversed

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Terence Corcoran May 6, 2026 FP Comment
Opinion: B.C.’s latest Indigenous lawsuit threatens freedom of contract

A lawsuit involving propane exports from Prince Rupert seeks to reverse an existing legal agreement. Doing so won't help future investment

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Peter Best, Special to Financial Post May 6, 2026 FP Comment
Matthew Lau: How Doug Ford can get his popularity back

The Ontario premier must start governing like a Conservative, which means stop spending like his Liberal predecessors

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Matthew Lau May 6, 2026 FP Comment

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