Last October, the Higgs government introduced legislation that would allow a private surgical clinic to deliver publicly-funded cataract removals in News Brunswick.

In Canada, governments have paid reparations to First Nations for almost two decades under the misleading heading of Reconciliation.

Canadians have access to fewer new drugs than Americans and Europeans, and consequently may endure undue suffering from ailments and disease.

Only about half of Canadians are old enough to remember watching the fall of the Berlin Wall live on television. Fewer still are old enough to recall the Polish communists’ brutal crackdown on protesters in the “long December night” in 1981.

In 1972, David Lewis, leader of the federal NDP, invoked the term “corporate welfare bums” to describe big businesses that demanded—and received—millions of dollars in government subsidies on the taxpayer’s dime.

Suppose your local high school urgently needed a new science teacher. Would a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry or physics be eligible for the position?

At a recent news conference, Ontario Premier Doug Ford renewed a 2018 campaign promise to allow Ontario convenience stores to sell beer and wine.

On a per-person basis, program spending (total spending minus debt charges) will top $16,826 this year, another record high (even after adjusting for inflation).

Next month, in the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Ford government and Ontario’s public-sector labour unions will argue about the government's wage-cap legislation enacted in 2019.

According to Premier Doug Ford, Ontario will put “more money on the table” to keep the Stellantis electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in the province, in addition to the $500 million the government already promised.

With a temporary windfall in resource revenue and large collective agreements (including with the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees) due for negotiations next year, the new Smith government will feel pressure to increase government employee wages.

With the economic downturn of the pandemic largely in the rearview mirror, Newfoundland and Labrador is poised to be the third-fastest-growing provincial economy in 2023 (trailing only Saskatchewan and Alberta).