Category: Eye on Canada

Eye on Canada

Ottawa’s bonus culture makes failure pay

by Franco Terrazzano | Aug 10, 2026

Taxpayers shell out about $200 million a year on bonuses for government executives even as departments routinely fail to hit their own targets

Is Ottawa about to break its own supply management law?

by Sylvain Charlebois | Aug 10, 2026
The political culture of entitlement needs to stop

by Jay Goldberg | Aug 10, 2026
One of Canada’s most resource-rich provinces is acting poor

by Pierre Gilbert | Aug 7, 2026
Saskatchewan is right to keep its coal plants running

by Lee Harding | Aug 6, 2026
Alberta deserves a better deal from the rest of Canada

by Lennie Kaplan | Aug 5, 2026

Ottawa prioritized immigration processing over public safety

by Riley Donovan

Protecting Canadians is the government’s first duty, and speedy immigration processing should never come at its expense

Canada is fighting organized crime the wrong way

by Scott McGregor

Seizing contraband matters, but dismantling the criminal infrastructure behind them matters more

Manitoba is profiting from inflation to squeeze taxpayers’ wallets

by Gage Haubrich

Premier Wab Kinew is quietly picking Manitoban pockets with an invisible tax hike he never campaigned on

Our obsession with soaking the rich is a mathematical dead end

by Roslyn Kunin

Canada has one of the world’s most progressive tax systems. The top fifth of earners already pay two-thirds of all income taxes

Carney and Eby’s condo bailout is crony capitalism

by Marco Navarro-Genie

Your tax dollars are being used to rescue wealthy developers from the consequences of their own market failures

Canada still trades like 13 separate countries

by Sylvain Charlebois

The premiers are celebrating a modest splash of progress on alcohol, but let’s be honest: they’re leaving the massive provincial dam standing firmly in place, keeping a truly free national market locked out

Canada already has two-tier health care. Politicians just won’t admit it

by Conrad Eder

The well-connected find ways to jump the queue while everyone else waits months for treatment

Alberta is betting billions on an unpredictable AI future

by Doug Firby

The province is making a multibillion-dollar wager that demand for massive AI data centres will keep growing

Government housing policies are killing the Canadian dream

by David Leis

Canada’s housing crisis wasn’t inevitable. It was built one government decision at a time