(July 8, 2011) Toronto’s plan to sell subway naming rights is a bad idea.
(July 8, 2011) Canadians have become accustomed to corporate sponsorship of buildings, the branding of sports stadiums and even the renaming of movie theatres after banks, but now there’s a push to expand the name game to public spaces – including Toronto’s Lake Ontario waterfront. Continue reading
(July 6, 2011) As is so often the case, regulations engender unintended consequences, hypocrisies, and hurdles that more often than not end up harming the little guy. 
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(July 4, 2011) “If in the long run we are the makers of our own fate, in the short run we are the captives of the ideas we have created”. These words of economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek’s today resonate loudly in the carbon “idea” – that the West should fast-track a low-carbon economy no matter what the socio-economic cost.
(June 24, 2011) Unbridled home-owning has become the single biggest threat to Canada’s economic stability.
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