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  • Spray Lakes, Alberta
    May 17, 2021

    Kananaskis User Fees Are Inappropriate

    There are two strong reasons for the costs of increased usage of the Kananaskis wilderness areas to be shouldered by the healthcare budget. It is a health matter. Physical activity and social interaction are salutary for Albertans coping with the economic and psychological hardships imposed by their government. Second, a pricing mechanism is wrong because the excess use did not issue from regular market demand. Claiming “medical advice,” the government has locked Albertans down and continues to restrict most options for essential social and physical activities. The excess costs associated with wilderness usage should therefore be medical costs.

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Kananaskis User Fees Are Inappropriate
  • May 3, 2021

    A Modest Re-Charge: Transformative Post-COVID Economic Recovery for Canada

    Canadians need to reject the political scheme of a Great Reset and any other grand scheme that seek to transform the country. The post-COVID-19 recovery needs to grow the economy. It is time to free our entrepreneurs of the mercantilistic shackles and unleash their power to create, grow and hire.

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie Sara MacIntyre
    Continue Reading →: A Modest Re-Charge: Transformative Post-COVID Economic Recovery for Canada
  • April 15, 2021

    Premier Kenney Places Albertans “Beyond the Pale”

    One would think that citizens whose lives are being hurt by their own government policies would receive sympathy and compassion. But instead, those suffering outside the medical tutelage of Alberta Health are disparaged as “unhinged conspiracy theorists.”

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Premier Kenney Places Albertans “Beyond the Pale”
  • April 12, 2021

    Premier Kenney May Be Down, but He’s Not Out

    Premier Kenney may be in trouble, if one believes in the recent polls, but don’t count him out.

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie Publication
    Continue Reading →: Premier Kenney May Be Down, but He’s Not Out
  • March 28, 2021

    It All Began in China

    Book Excerpt (published in The Epoch Times) From COVID-19: The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic Timelines associated with the […]

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie Publication
    Continue Reading →: It All Began in China
  • March 17, 2021

    Two Pandemics Are More Frightful than One

    This week marked the anniversary of the COVID-19 confinements that were only supposed to last for a few weeks. That […]

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Two Pandemics Are More Frightful than One
  • March 8, 2021

    Joe Biden Has Killed the Alberta-51 Option

    About a third of Albertans steadily favour breaking away from Canada. That number has recently been as high as 50 […]

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Joe Biden Has Killed the Alberta-51 Option
  • March 1, 2021

    Computer Modelers Are Still Driving the COVID-19 Fear Wagon

    Renewed calls for prolonged lockdowns to deal with the new SARS-CoV-2 mutations are wrong headed. It has been a year […]

    Marco Navarro-Génie Research Paper
    Continue Reading →: Computer Modelers Are Still Driving the COVID-19 Fear Wagon
  • February 8, 2021

    Skills Matter, Not Where You Are From

    There is wisdom in the long-standing advice about offering unsolicited advice, which is independent of whether the advice given is […]

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Skills Matter, Not Where You Are From
  • December 29, 2020

    Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Is Political Clamoring Helpful or Harmful?

    Caught between a rock and a hard place. This best sums up the position that the UCP government recently found […]

    Column Economy and Economic Development Gerard A. Lucyshyn
    Continue Reading →: Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Is Political Clamoring Helpful or Harmful?
  • December 7, 2020

    NEW BOOK! COVID-19 The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic

    COVID-19 The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic explores the political and social responses that have been tributary to the […]

    Book Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: NEW BOOK! COVID-19 The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic
  • October 13, 2020

    It’s Time to End the Politics of Panic

    Seven months since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, against evidence and common sense, media, elected officials and health experts continue […]

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie Publication
    Continue Reading →: It’s Time to End the Politics of Panic
  • September 24, 2020

    ‘Second Wave’ Fears Further Threaten Civil Liberties

    On September 18, Israel relocked down the country for the following three weeks, becoming the first developed country to shut […]

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: ‘Second Wave’ Fears Further Threaten Civil Liberties
  • July 15, 2020

    The University of Calgary’s “Systemic Racism” Admission Is Virtue-Signaling at Its Worst

    The University of Calgary (UC) has admitted to being a systemically racist institution against blacks, indigenous people and other people […]

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: The University of Calgary’s “Systemic Racism” Admission Is Virtue-Signaling at Its Worst
  • June 30, 2020

    Prime Minister Trudeau Has Eroded Canada’s Place in the World

    Canada’s standing in the world has been eroded under Prime Minister Trudeau. Why would other countries support the new version of Canada on the world stage?

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Prime Minister Trudeau Has Eroded Canada’s Place in the World
  • June 26, 2020

    The COVID-19 Regime Has Collapsed under Its Own Contradictions

    The last few weeks have exposed schizophrenic aspects of Canadian culture and its influence on governments’ behaviour. The most palpable […]

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: The COVID-19 Regime Has Collapsed under Its Own Contradictions
  • June 24, 2020

    The Lockdown Failed Our Most Vulnerable

    In the long-term, a variety of small-scale alternatives that uphold the dignity of residents as a high priority is the best way to atone for the current failures.

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: The Lockdown Failed Our Most Vulnerable
  • May 22, 2020

    We Can Learn from Sweden’s Achievement in Protecting Its Democratic Traditions

    Much ink has been assigned to Sweden for its distinct approach to COVID-19 among Western nations. As more jurisdictions wrestle […]

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: We Can Learn from Sweden’s Achievement in Protecting Its Democratic Traditions
  • May 13, 2020

    Contextualizing the Cost of COVID: Will Canada Ever Pay it Off?

    It has become routine, every morning around 11:15 a.m. EDT thousands of Canadians gather around their television sets to hear the daily […]

    Column Gerard A. Lucyshyn Public Finance and Fiscal Federalism
    Continue Reading →: Contextualizing the Cost of COVID: Will Canada Ever Pay it Off?
  • April 27, 2020

    Think-Tank Influence

    Think Tanks are organizations that come in a variety of forms and models, but their general goal is to generate ideas and data, arguments and imagery that will seed public debates, influence discourse. New options for policy; ways to do thing better.

    Marco Navarro-Génie Public Presentation
    Continue Reading →: Think-Tank Influence
  • April 25, 2020

    The Rise of Zombies in the Wake of COVID-19

    We are spending double the amount of time on our streaming platforms compared to last year, close to 45.4 billion minutes spent on Netflix […]

    Column Economy and Economic Development Gerard A. Lucyshyn
    Continue Reading →: The Rise of Zombies in the Wake of COVID-19
  • April 14, 2020

    Eco-ideologues at the Ready to Profit from Health Crisis

    Radical ideologues from the University of Alberta are prepared to inflict more pain and suffering upon Albertans in the oil industry for the sake of accelerating the advent of the pristine future they expect to arrive soon.

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Eco-ideologues at the Ready to Profit from Health Crisis
  • April 1, 2020

    Trudeau’s Failed Power Grab Is an Attack on Democracy

    The Trudeau government’s effort to transfer power temporarily from the House of Commons to the Office of the Finance Minister was an unconstitutional attempt to bypass the will of Canadians as expressed in the 2019 election.

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Trudeau’s Failed Power Grab Is an Attack on Democracy
  • March 28, 2020

    Three Elements Converge into a Perfect Economic Storm for Alberta

    In the midst of a perfect triad of storms, Alberta should combat the COVID-19 pandemic as though there were no attempts to choke Alberta’s oil industry, and it must combat the attempts to choke Alberta’s oil industry as though there was no COVID-19.

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Three Elements Converge into a Perfect Economic Storm for Alberta
  • February 25, 2020

    Laurentian Canada Determined to Kill Oil Sands Development

    As predicted weeks ago, Albertans did not need to hold their breath for Ottawa’s approval of the Frontier oil sands […]

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Laurentian Canada Determined to Kill Oil Sands Development
  • January 22, 2020

    Alberta’s Problem Isn’t Geography

    Regressive and oppressive Iranian Shiite mullahs have proven to be more reasonable business counterparts than former World Wildlife Fund apparatchiks in Ottawa, populist nationalists in Quebec City, and the rigid eco-zealous alliance of Greens and New Democrats in Victoria. This is Alberta’s problem!

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Alberta’s Problem Isn’t Geography
  • January 13, 2020

    Independence If Necessary … the Winning Conditions

    Freedom Conference 2019 Where Do We Go From Here? Separation is not really the right language we want to use. […]

    Marco Navarro-Génie Video
    Continue Reading →: Independence If Necessary … the Winning Conditions
  • January 5, 2020

    Rushing to Have an Alberta Independence Referendum Is a Bad Gamble

    Whether one endorses or opposes the option of an independent Alberta, Albertans would do well to consider the option carefully.

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Rushing to Have an Alberta Independence Referendum Is a Bad Gamble
  • January 5, 2020

    Canada Should Fix Equalization and Other Regional Subsidies Now

    The fundamental objection to equalization and equalization-type provisions in many federal programs is that they are entirely counterproductive. They do […]

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Canada Should Fix Equalization and Other Regional Subsidies Now
  • December 16, 2019

    Feds Shortchange Alberta Once More

    Those who argue that the Canadian federation exhibits plenty of fiscal and program biases against Prairie Canadians will likely see […]

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Feds Shortchange Alberta Once More
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