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Continue Reading →: Why the Canada Pension Plan Is a Ponzi Scheme
Why the Canada Pension Plan Is a Ponzi Scheme
The following is an abridgement of chapter 4 in the recently published book Financial Sovereignty for Canadians (March 2024), authored […]
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Continue Reading →: Remembering Brian Mulroney (1939-2024)
Remembering Brian Mulroney (1939-2024)
The 18th prime minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney, passed away on February 29, weeks short of his 85th birthday. He is […]
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Continue Reading →: It’s Procurement, Stupid!
It’s Procurement, Stupid!
We should not be surprised but it rarely fails that in this country the proposed solution to every problem in government and every problem in the bureaucracy seems to be to hire more bureaucrats (or spend more money, which in most cases amounts to the same thing).
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Continue Reading →: From Peronismo to Libertarianism: Javier Milei’s Argentine Climate Change, Part 1.
From Peronismo to Libertarianism: Javier Milei’s Argentine Climate Change, Part 1.
The climate has radically changed in Argentina; the political and economic climate of ideas, that is. Argentina has a new […]
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Continue Reading →: Haultain Research Welcomes David A. McLellan as Senior Fellow
Haultain Research Welcomes David A. McLellan as Senior Fellow
CALGARY, ALBERTA – 10 November 2023 The Haultain Research Institute, a leading independent educational organization dedicated to addressing structural inequities […]
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Continue Reading →: Toward the Alberta Advantage
Toward the Alberta Advantage
Late in 1978 and early 1979, the Peter Lougheed government embarked on a mission to lower the “small business” income […]
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Continue Reading →: Shandro gun announcement shows how Sovereignty works
Shandro gun announcement shows how Sovereignty works
In mid September (2022), Premier Jason Kenney openly disagreed with UCP leadership hopeful Danielle Smith over Smith’s proposed Alberta Sovereignty […]
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Continue Reading →: Contextualizing the Cost of COVID: Will Canada Ever Pay it Off?
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 […]