What it would really take to close the gender wage gap
Peter Shawn Taylor: A look at Nordic countries reveals the big obstacle to eliminating gender pay gaps is the preferences of female workers themselves
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Why Canadian baby boomers gave up on hitchhiking
Peter Shawn Taylor explains the rise and fall of the golden—and federally funded—age of hitchhiking
Buying a pipeline? It’s a great Canadian tradition.
Peter Shawn Taylor: Ottawa has repeatedly stepped up to get behind big, nation-building projects. What’s different this time is the opposition.
The Ontario party platforms are thin gruel—the PCs the least thin
Peter Shawn Taylor: With little concern for fiscal responsibility and a total avoidance of hard choices, each of the party platforms offer slim pickings
Why a ban on plastic straws sucks
Peter Shawn Taylor: Despite becoming the latest environmental supervillains straws are not to blame for polluting oceans, beaches or cities
How one Ontario town used Uber to solve its public transit crisis
Opinion: Uber has already helped a small town move people from place to place. Can the ride-sharing service help bigger cities fight congestion?
The marriage secret: it makes you richer and happier
With marriage rates in decline in Canada, why is no one talking about the benefits? Marriage is both a poverty fighter and predictor of success.
Hollywood’s misguided fight against tipping in restaurants and bars
Opinion: Celebrities are casting tipping as yet another battle in the never-ending gender wars, but that’s unlikely to put an end to the practice—tips are a matter of economics, not sexual politics
Who else will like marijuana legalization? Economists.
An entire segment of the economy now needs to be properly accounted for and studied. It’s a massive and historic opportunity.
Our increasing obsession with flying, and hating every second of it
Peter Shawn Taylor: If flying is such a complaint-ridden, exhausting nightmare, why is the rate of air travel heading relentlessly skywards?