In my latest Epoch Times column I ask whether the shock of Russia invading Ukraine, and the mostly commendable Western response, will make Canadians and their governments more serious about defence spending and therefore about budgeting generally.

In my latest National Post column I say the only reason Erin O’Toole’s leadership isn’t over is that it never started.

In my latest National Post column I say the reason official Ottawa is so inert in the face of rising inflation, beyond the usual smugness, is that if interest rates go up public borrowing will become unsustainable. (As in the US, where it’s beyond the more general issue of rage rather than Canadian-style complacency paralyzing debate.)

In my latest Epoch Times column I say it’s not really news that our vaunted socialized medicine delivers terrible results at excessive cost… or that calls for reform always specify that in revamping it nothing must be changed.

In my latest Epoch Times column I lament the steep hike in CPP and EI premiums as more proof that we now think the state is more important than the society it supposedly exists to serve and protect.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I ask what people see in the actual operations of government that inspires them to trust it to transform our economies, societies and characters for the better.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the now-routine desperate improvisation to avoid fiscal ruin is not going to end well in Washington, or here in Canada.

In my latest National Post column I say the obvious reason Jason Kenney and Erin O’Toole are facing party revolts and ugly polling numbers is that they have abandoned conservatism for opportunism.