regulation

Trump’s order aimed at cutting government red tape follows Canada’s successful example. Surely, we can give him credit for that.

How Obama’s new environmental rules are reshaping the debate

In between cups of coffee—15 per day? Really?—Paul Martin explains how the world and Canada should be reacting to global economic turmoil.

If the CRTC decides CanCon rules apply online, web companies could be tempted to cut off Canada

Choice, competition, and who owns content

Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric, on greed, globalization and what it takes to wake up happy each day

‘The environment’ is the most ingenious cover story ever devised for Big Government

Update: Given the time stamp, nobody’s going to believe that I didn’t read this post first before coming up with the above subject heading. But I didn’t. Anyway, it’s the only subject heading that fits.

Reading Andrew Coyne never fails to make me to think harder. His current piece “Our so-called genius banks,” a welcome assault on conventional wisdom, is no exception. After mulling it over, though, I don’t buy key parts of my colleague’s bid to debunk the by now familiar story of how, in the financial crisis, Canada’s banking regulation and culture have proven superior to other systems, notably the American alternative.

I keep thinking about what John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) would have had to say about the financial markets meltdown.

The CRTC is thinking of regulating the internet. Seriously. It’s even going to hold hearings — sorry, a “consultation” — on the matter. And while CRTC commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein claims “our intention is not to regulate the internet,” it wouldn’t be the CRTC if it didn’t have regulation very much in mind.