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Terence Corcoran: How big is your total government credit card debt?

Are you ready for it? About $240,000 for a family of four

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Prime Minister Mark Carney during a visit to the Vector Institute at the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus Toronto on June 4.

Jack Mintz: Tactics divide Albertans on 'stay' or 'leave'

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Jack M. Mintz FP Comment

Alberta provincial flag on bronze shield at the Centennial Flame in front of the Centre Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, June 4, 2026.

William Watson: Hubris meets humbug with government AI 'strategy'

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Former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair speaks during the 'Future Of Britain' conference at Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Hotel on July 09, 2024 in London, England.

Opinion: ‘Streamlined’ development rules seem more complex than ever

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George Vegh and Kate Koplovich, Special to Financial Post FP Comment

Construction crane is seen working around the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026.

Opinion: Canada’s EV pivot from superproducer to superconsumer

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Kenneth Green, Special to Financial Post FP Comment

This photograph taken on January 10, 2024 shows electric cars for export waiting to be loaded on the "BYD Explorer NO.1", a domestically manufactured vessel intended to export Chinese automobiles, at Yantai port, in eastern China's Shandong province.

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William Watson: Six degrees of separation anxiety

There's lots to worry about in an Alberta referendum. As Quebec's two votes and Brexit demonstrate, unknown unknowns lie in wait for us

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William Watson 2 days ago FP Comment
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Terence Corcoran: For PM Mark Carney, PM stands for PragMatist

Does the prime minister support fossil fuels and/or carbon reduction? Yes. Closer ties with U.S. or less? Yes

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Matthew Lau: Keep out of Tim Hortons' hiring choices

Business satisfies social obligations by providing the best products at the lowest prices. It should stick to that

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Matthew Lau 6 days ago FP Comment
Opinion: In Nova Scotia, governments are getting mining-friendlier

After years of stop-go signals federal and provincial officials are now making approvals easier on the ground

Dawson Brisco and John Budreski, Special to Financial Post 6 days ago FP Comment
Terence Corcoran: The Pope on AI 'slavery' versus liberation

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

Terence Corcoran May 29, 2026 FP Comment

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Jack Mintz: Rising government debt will hit Canada, too

Defence needs and demographics mean that without deficit discipline, government debt will keep rising, which it cannot do forever

Jack M. Mintz May 29, 2026 FP Comment
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Opinion: Capacity, not market power, is grain transport’s big problem

Limits on what rail companies can earn from hauling grain may protect shippers but discourage long-term investment in carrying capacity

Mary-Jane Bennett, Special to Financial Post May 29, 2026 FP Comment
Terence Corcoran: Biting the Invisible Hand once again

Peter Foster’s insightful book on the intellectual and political conflict over Adam Smith’s ideas goes international with Italian translation

Terence Corcoran May 29, 2026 FP Comment
William Watson: Is 'wed thy neighbour' a problem for policy?

A U.S. study finds people tend to marry people who live close by and are from the same race and income group

William Watson May 28, 2026 FP Comment
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 May 28, 2026 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 May 27, 2026 FP Comment
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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 May 27, 2026 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 May 27, 2026 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 May 26, 2026 FP Comment
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 May 26, 2026 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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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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