Dairy Trade Winners, Losers, and Winners – April 14, 2010
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key’s visit to Ottawa serves to contrast Canada’s agricultural policy with the policy of free trade.

The Wheat Board’s Tall Tales – August 21, 2009
The board’s claim that by gathering together all prairie grain and selling it in bulk it will achieve a higher price is a myth, because even though it controls the output of around 60,000 farmers, it nonetheless still controls too little grain to push the price up by withholding wheat and barley from the market, then rushing it to the selling floor.

Where's The Outrage Over High Milk Prices? – July 28, 2009
To realize how truly peculiar our milk thinking is, consider another crucial liquid in Canadians' lives, this one black. When world oil prices fall and their decline is not instantaneously reflected at your local gas pump, the media, the man in the street and Liberal MP Dan McTeague all become apoplectic.

Hearts And Minds Mixed Over Heartlandia – May 22, 2009
The bottom line is the attempt to make cross-border activity easier, getting people working as a team more often and to capitalize on what may be a long growth cycle for the West.

All Roads Lead To The Middle – May 21, 2009
As the region's agricultural, food processing, aerospace, transportation and manufacturing sectors mature, there is increasing interest in developing new markets within the region.

More Jobs and Better Taxi Service – February 13, 2009
Why Canada should follow New Zealand and Ireland and deregulate taxis.

Media Release - More Jobs and Better Taxi Service – February 12, 2009
Market failure, regulatory failure, and how to make taxi markets function for more jobs and better service.

Something Rotten in the State of Winnipeg Taxi Market – February 10, 2009
After the disappointment of the Winnipeg Taxi Study, Senior Policy Analyst David Seymour takes a more imaginative look at the results of taxi deregulation in other countries.

Canada’s Wheat Cult – November 24, 2008
The CWB has become as much an economic cult as a Crown marketing agency. So it is never going to admit it is a drag on farmers or the West. But at some point taxpayers have to wake up to the fact that they are subsidizing Western farmers to the tune of $1-billion or more a year and they wouldn't have to if the federal government would simply make marketing grain through the board optional, rather than compulsory.

Canadian Interests Divided at Global Trade Talks – July 30, 2008
Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Bob Bjornerud told reporters last week he's concerned that Canada's refusal to make concessions on supply management could hurt western Canadian interests.

Fish Board's Ship Sinking, Report Confirms – July 28, 2008
People who lived in rural or remote communities can now communicate via telephone or more importantly, the Internet. This medium has brought profound changes as the average fisher can surf the web and find out how much the free-market system is paying for various species of freshwater fish. In addition, they can now see that "value-adding" to their catch (smoking, marinating and modified atmosphere packaging) can derive not only better returns and longer shelf life, but provide meaningful jobs in their communities.

Too Chicken to End Supply-Managed Agriculture – July 17, 2008
Canada’s politicians continue to be scared of a small rump of highly organized farmers whose government sanctioned cartel directly harms the interests of most farmers, all consumers and manufacturers.

Killing the Golden Goose – July 14, 2008

Somaliland - Sleeping-Walking Into Disaster – July 11, 2008
"And then came the global warming hysteria, an idea that has more to do with Europe’s prosperous middle class politics and media than it has to do with Science but which no politician in the West could be seen to question let alone oppose. It basically makes three claims: that the world is warming up; we are causing it; and it is a bad thing. Each of those claims could be challenged but no one dared to be seen on the `wrong’ side of this `debate’."

The Pursuit of Happiness – July 10, 2008
The insight that markets break down discrimination is not new. Over 200 years ago Voltaire wrote: “Go into the London Stock Exchange. . . and you will see representatives of all nations gathered there for the service of mankind. There the Jew, the Mohammedan, and the Christian deal with each other as if they were of the same religion, and give the name of infidel only to those who go bankrupt.”

The World Food Summit: Canada is part of the problem – June 10, 2008
The food-crisis summit that was held in Rome by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) last week reminds us that the protectionist policies of the industrialized countries are having harmful consequences on the well-being of the world population. Canada, the world's fourth-largest exporter and fifth-largest importer of agricultural products, must show its goodwill by reforming some of its programs that harm trade.

It's A Fight To Keep Fishing – May 23, 2008
Like every fish story, there is the one that got away -- now these fishers are refusing to "bush" pickerel and want to sell it on the open market, which is offering a huge dollar these days.

Why Planned Integration of Land Use and Transport will Not Achieve its Goals. – November 14, 2007

Let Dairy Farmers Sleep - We'll Buy Somewhere Else – October 31, 2007
Canadians would all be better off if we closed down supply management and imported dairy products at world prices.

Is Quota Helping to Kill the Family Farm? – October 25, 2007
As the entry price into the monopoly increases the number of dairy farms is collapsing.