The third week of January, marked as National Non-Smoking Week, arrives every year with great sanctimony but without much action to back it up. Canada, despite this week coming and...
This week Sweden edged closer to officially becoming “smoke free.” According to the World Health Organization, that is a smoking rate lower than 5%. At 5.3%, and on the current trajectory, it’s...
In 1930, U.S. Congress passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, with the hopes of calming the great depression, and to raise more revenue for the federal government. To paraphrase the great...
Giving Ontarians greater choice and convenience in buying alcohol won’t significantly increase social harms, including drunk driving Three large health organizations are now criticizing Ontario’s government for its roll-out of...
Canadian consumers need real and sustainable telecom competition. Although this has been a political slogan for more than a decade and a half it has never really materialized. Despite the...
Last Friday, anti-vaping activists took to Parliament Hill and called for the resignation of Minister of Addiction Ya’ara Saks. They said they’ve been waiting 14 months for the minister to...
Many Canadians let out a sigh of relief late last year when they heard Justice Angela Furlanetto had ruled that the federal government’s listing of all plastic items as toxic...
OTTAWA, ON – Yesterday, Ottawa announced new rules for nicotine pouches, which will ban flavours except for mint/menthol, and ban the sale of pouches in convenience stores and gas stations. The Consumer Choice...
We can now add plastic bag bans to the list of “well-meaning but failed experiments” being run in California. Two devastating pieces in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times reveal how the environmentalist fervor...
On Friday, the province of Ontario announced it is freezing the 4.6 per cent scheduled increase in beer taxes, and will hold off on any tax increases until 2026. This...
Victoria, BC – Today BC’s Health Minister announced that nicotine pouches will no longer be legally sold at convenience stores in the province. The Consumer Choice Center’s Toronto based North...
In the spirit of Festivus, the annual celebration of complaint, raspberries go to prohibitionists, supply managers and health zealots Dear friends, every year on Dec. 23, we gather to celebrate...
