Does Stéphane Dion’s promise to cancel the tax on income trusts make sense?
As politicians’ broken promises go, the Conservative government’s decision in October 2006 to reverse course and put a new tax...
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Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell is the deputy editor at Maclean’s. Since joining the magazine in 2005, he has also served as the foreign editor, business editor and a reporter covering everything from politics to sports.
Chrysler’s bold leap, and questionable colour scheme
Chrysler is going electric. It announced today three new plug-in cars, the first of which will roll off production lines in...
Google calling
We’ve been waiting a long time for this one: the arrival of the Google-powered cell phone. For now, it’s only being carried by...
Jerry and Bill, connecting with the people
The first Seinfeld-Gates Microsoft ad didn’t go over very well (see Steve Maich’s column from the current issue of...
The Volt, now with pictures!
Edmunds has pics of the electric Chevy Volt, or "The car that will save Detroit" as we like to call it. Not nearly as exotic as...
Steve Jobs, still not dead, still skinny
The man spells it out for us, while introducing the new iPods today. This, in response to Bloomberg’s accidental running of his...
A tale of two carbon taxes
I imagine Stephane Dion spends a lot of time wondering exactly what went wrong with the Green Shift. It’s not like he was wading...
The National Regulator Now movement
In the Globe and Mail today, Bill Downe, CEO of the Bank of Montreal, throws his support behind Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s...
Microsoft isn’t funny, but that’s ok
A few weeks back we came down hard on Microsoft for its misguided Vista-Mojave ad in which it attacked its own customers for not...
Vipers, Magna and the Nürburgring
Chrysler is thinking about selling off the Dodge Viper, its iconic 600 hp sports car. Like GM, which is trying to ditch its Hummer...