The failure of the capital gains tax to resonate reflects how macroeconomic landscape has become the big driver of redistribution

Too often lately, we’ve seen the core principles of sound policy making abandoned at the altar of political expediency.

Let’s allow the Bank of Canada a moment to celebrate - a mini victory lap.

Canada’s 2024 budget is now at the 10-day mark since being tabled by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on April 16 - enough time to take stock of and process reaction from stakeholders.

It’s tough to be optimistic about the future of the news business in Canada.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the 2024 budget Tuesday, with big spending to increase Canada’s housing supply. The only thing keeping the deficit trajectory in check were new taxes, including $19 billion over five years in new capital gains levies on wealthy individuals and corporations – underscoring the extent to which we have fully entered a populist moment in Canadian politics, Theo Argitis writes.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ repent visit to Canada rovided an interesting example of how Canada’s status as a creditor nation allows us to yield more global economic power than is perhaps evident given our diminishing hard power around the world, writes Theo Argitis.

Some saw Bank of Canada's No. 2 official's recent speech on the nation's awful productivity numbers as a criticism of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's economic record. Why did this speech get so much attention?