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Time for Greece’s free ride to end
Unruly students in Quebec are no different from the Greeks. Both have enjoyed free rides for years, both are being asked to pay their share of the tab and both are refusing to do so. The backdrop to...
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Why Facebook hype never made sense to me
I did not buy Facebook stock because I have never understood it. I bought Google in its early days because I had figured out the business model. Google was a ubiquitous newspaper, with a gargantuan...
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Why Thomas Mulcair is clearly a national problem
NDP leader Thomas Mulcair has had a couple of red-letter weeks. He moved into the mansion called Stornaway for Opposition Leaders, with its big expense account and Royal trappings. He got tons of...
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Shell is changing the energy game — and in a big way
This week, Royal Dutch Shell PLC began rolling out a strategy that will dramatically change the energy world. With revenues larger than the economies of Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia...
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How Greece’s football team could keep it in the euro
Greece’s national football team plays Russia on Saturday and must win, or be eliminated from the Euro 2012 tournament. Tensions are high and police will ring the Warsaw stadium to protect fans from...
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Finally, a good excuse to scrap Canada’s farming cartels
Canadians must hope New Zealand and Australia force Canada to scrap its protectionist supply management system for dairy, poultry and eggs before being allowed to join the coveted Trans-Pacific...
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Why health reform is good news for the U.S. economy
One of my relatives is among the 130 million Americans with a pre-existing medical condition who, without adequate healthcare insurance, could face financial ruin if his disease recurs. Roughly half of...
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New bank misdeeds show financial industry in need of overhaul
Banksters are being exposed one after another for indulging in widespread interest rate manipulation, power market collusion and municipal bond bid rigging. All these allegations are disheartening so...
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Latest example of banksterism shows why faith in capitalism is fading
Another sordid example of banksterism — money laundering — surfaced this week accompanied, not surprisingly, by a blistering global poll that shows faith in capitalism is shrinking. HSBC (Hong Kong and...
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Why everyone needs to stop talking about Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer’s pregnancy
The flap over Yahoo Inc.’s appointment of a pregnant 37-year-old executive as its CEO is a surprising, and disappointing, rerun of Father Knows Best and Gloria Steinem footage from the 1960s. Ladies...
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Stop state-backed foreign buyouts in Canada’s resource sector – now
The proposed takeover of Nexen Inc. by China National Offshore Oil Company, or any other like it, cannot be allowed. If the acquisition of Canada’s resource companies is not banned, then much of...
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Why politicians must disclose their taxes
Mitt Romney has every right in the world to keep his tax returns private, but not as a Presidential candidate. Americans go further in terms of requiring disclosure from politicians than anywhere else...
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Knight Capital trading disaster portends frightening future for markets
In the 19th century, investors who employed agents and carrier pigeons to bring information to them first made great fortunes. Today, money is being made by those who employ armies of quants...
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Facebook’s pain isn’t over yet
Facebook has lost nearly half its market value since May debut The Facebook fiasco just rolls on, a combination of inept management and underwriting based on unaudited numbers about so-called “active...
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Canada has lesson to learn from Australia in foreign student policy
Canada is finally moving toward a smart, two-step immigration policy, like Australia and others have, that will recruit talent through a targeting policy of foreign student education. Australia’s...
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How the GOP is turning into the ‘Grand Torino’ Party
Politics and entertainment have finally converged but the audiences are demanding and drifting The Republican convention showcased a party that has become a loose coalition of social conservatives and...
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FP Letters to the Editor: Grumbling old readers
Re: “ Republicans starting to look like Eastwood,” Diane Francis, Sept. 1 I have been a reader of the National Post for many years, but I normally do not read Diane Francis. While I usually find her...
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With no cap on spending, GOP and Dems get set to unleash the ‘slime’
The two political conventions ended this week and now the carpet-bombing of U.S. voters begins. The coming weeks will mark the beginning of the first presidential race when anyone or anything can spend...
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Despite slowdown, China’s transformative growth still a warning to the world
TIANJIN, CHINA – Few know about this city even though it is only half an hour from Beijing by fast train and has a population equivalent to Ontario’s. The population of the two cities is equivalent to...
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Is Canada headed for demographic disaster?
BANFF, Alta. — Canadian demographer and author David Foot took the Global Business Forum annual gathering on a worldwide trek and forecast the success of nations through his unique lens. Demographics...
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