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It seems you can’t turn on the evening news or open up a newspaper in Canada without seeing a story about climate change. Similarly, stories about oil and gas development in Canada (especially pipeline stories), and carbon taxes have garnered significant political discourse over the past few years…

Antil-oil activists can often be seen and heard urging governments to keep oil “in the ground.” How would that affect your life?

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Many anti-oil activists want governments to simply keep our country’s oil in the ground. So why do those same activists continue to use products that are made with oil…

When government programs struggle to provide services, some politicians and special interest groups inevitably suggest the solution is simply for the government to spend even more money. But is that really the answer to our health care system’s woes?

This past December, Kris Sims from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and I drove from Burnaby, B.C. just over the border to a hospital complex in Bellingham (Washington State). We were hoping to talk to Canadians about why they were leaving the country for health care…

Patients should note that the B.C. government and the Canada Health Act have two very different definitions of “extra-billing.”