Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy focuses on global affairs, current events, and domestic and international policy. It produces a daily on its website and prints six issues annually. FP always has the inside scoop.
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WIRED
WIRED is a monthly magazine that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics. If you're curious as to what the future might look like, WIRED is a good place to start.
The Economist
The Economist is a weekly newspaper printed in magazine-format that focuses on world news, international business, and politics. We read every issue religiously.
The Paradox of Choice
The Paradox of Choice lays the foundation for what would become known as behavioural economics. Dr Schwartz illustrates how humans, markets, and organizations are perpetually irrational actors.
The Bottom Billion
The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier tackles the issues that are keeping 1/7 of the world's population in systemic poverty. It is candid, hawkish, and one of the most thought-provoking books you'll read this year.
Lament for a Nation
Lament for a Nation (by George Grant) examines the fall of the Progressive Conservatives to the Liberals over the Bomarc Missile crisis. It is a fundamental work in Canadian political philosophy.
The Ascent of Money
The Ascent of Money is a delightful history of our financial evolutions. From the Fertile Crescent to Piccadilly Circus, Niall Ferguson uses wit and enlightened retrospection to explain how we got here.
Canada should test Beijing’s promises before it pays for masks
Millions of Chinese-made masks failed Canadian tests this spring. Ottawa should stop accepting replacements on faith and test equipment before it pays.
Quantitative easing is the wrong tool for the Bank of Canada
Rumours that the Bank will buy bonds to fight the pandemic miss a decade of QE abroad: contested growth effects, more fragile markets, and a policy that is hard to stop.
Do we need a carbon tax?
Canada’s federal pricing scheme mixes a fuel charge with an output-based system for big emitters. In theory it is elegant. In practice it fully prices what households cannot easily change and underfunds the substitutes that would replace it.
As schools move classes online, rural students are left without support
Schools closed across Canada in mid-March and moved classes online, while fewer than half of rural households had the federal internet standard. Budget 2019 spread the fix over 13 years.
CANZUK should be Canada’s foreign policy priority
The recent CUSMA negotiations have shown that Washington will tariff an ally to extract concessions. Canada needs trading options, and a CANZUK treaty built on mobility, trade, and security can work as Canada’s hedge.