Canada’s financial institutions could face criminal liability for facilitating transactions tied to cartel-linked drug sales, according to a new report by journalist David Clement. Clement argues Canada’s recent designation of seven transnational criminal...
A global push for cancer warning labels on everything does a disservice to consumers and blurs risks & hazards At the American Medical Association’s annual meeting, the second day of...
The City of Hamilton is considering a municipal tax on vaping, and has asked the city’s finance and legal staff to examine how exactly the city could impose such a tax....
Two complaints are most common among Canadians during tax time: taxes are too high, and filing taxes is too complicated. With every new kind of tax and deduction hitting Canadians...
In the context of the Trump administration’s threat of tariffs on Canada and the possible renegotiation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), Canada’s system of supply management for dairy, poultry,...
Donald Trump sent shockwaves through the U.S. NGO ecosystem with his executive order which pauses federal funding, pending review, for organizations that are deemed to be “undermining national security.” What falls in...
U.S. President Donald Trump is no friend to Canada, and his tariff threats are a menacing shadow as we approach his Feb. 1 deadline. Yet, while the president seems intent...
As the election in Ontario moves along, it is timely to reflect on a policy that Premier Doug Ford delivered on, and that is alcohol retail modernization. Consumers in Ontario...
Canada is a cold place, and to get around my home of Ontario comfortably during the winter I’m lucky to have a top-shelf pair of American premium leather cowboy boots...
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...
