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So many good charities, so many demands: can’t choose?

United Way can help. The United Way is not a charity. It raises money for charities and decides which ones should get the money. It’s a formula that really works. I am a reluctant convert: like many people I thought the United Way was a huge impersonal organisation which probably had way too much overhead. It has been really gratifying for me to work with the United Way for several years now, and I want to tell you why. Thousands of worthy causes vie for our attention.

Canada’s Historic Aversion to Risk: Why Aggressive Tax Policy is the Best Solution

Canada’s DNA is more risk averse than in the U.S., and the challenge of encouraging people who have the ability to strike out on their own is bigger here. I think there are good reasons for this. In my first full time job, like many others of my generation, I worked for an American company. I remember going down to the US for training, with a group of Canadians, to a facility where a huge cohort of Americans was also being trained. We spent three weeks there, total immers

For there to be executives, there must first be entrepreneurs--the reverse does not apply: Why Gover

Economies today have the opportunity and challenge of rapid change. Change occurs on a technological level at an astonishing rate, but it also occurs because of regulation needed to address new knowledge about the environment, and because of global geo-political change such as globalisation and the backlash against it. The large publicly traded company lacks the flexibility to adapt successfully to such changes. In the modern environment, we need bold people to guess where

Time for a Single Public Education System

Remember True Blue and Orange Homes, the Orange Parade? An Ontario where Catholics and Protestants lived in different neighbourhoods and never the twain shall meet? Every Ontario Town had a street that divided the Catholics from the Protestants? In Lindsay, Ontario, where I lived for a time, it was Kent St. As recently as 1971, my father was told by his lawyer that the house he had chosen was in a part of town that “we” don’t live in. In Oakville, the divider was Kerr, o

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