You Call This Progress?: It’s time to rethink how we measure ‘growth’ in our...
When Gross Domestic Product goes up, the media and citizenry have been conditioned to shout hosannas. Yet in the backrooms somewhere, decision-makers could be looking at these same robust growth...
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Even Albertans and Quebeckers are showing a profound commitment to the nation, say politicos Peter Donolo and Allan Gregg From the Manitoba schools question in the 1890s to the 1995 Quebec referendum,...
View ArticleAlberta’s Challenge to Canada
Appeared in Sept 2006 issue of The Walrus Magazine If the British North America Act were being written today…natural resource ownership would most likely remain with the federal government. – “Policy...
View ArticleProductivity isn’t just a talking point
There is a general consensus that Canada has a productivity gap. Yet the issue refuses to capture the public’s imagination or to take a higher priority on the nation’s political agenda. Claims that the...
View ArticleChanging our world, one question at a time
In 1905, from his small cubicle in a patent office in Zurich, Albert Einstein issues four papers that forever change our understanding of theoretical physics and the functioning of the cosmos. In the...
View ArticleRethinking Progress
Notes for Remarks to Carleton University 2017 Convocation – June 15, 2017 Mr. Chancellor, Chair of the Board, Madam President, Graduates, Honoured Guests and Proud Parents …. This is an honour…. but...
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