Tag: government

In his latest book, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball, takes an in-depth look at the failure ...

Compared with the business sector’s impressive mastery of new technologies, government responses were heavy-handed, lead-footed, and wrong-headed, writes Philip Cross ...

Above all, the civil service is not neutral about pursuing its own interests, writes Philip Cross in the Financial Post. ...

Instead of expecting the unexpected, they rely on the 'Everything Goes According to Plan' assumption. It never has, and never ...

It may be that StatCan no longer has the ability — or even the motivation — to actually engage with ...

By removing regular contact with the public, the civil service risks diminishing its own importance in the lives of Canadians, ...

The best way to minimize intergovernmental conflict is to limit how much governments interact. It can produce big savings for ...

In its upcoming budget, the Trudeau government needs to avoid unfocused, scatter-shot activism, writes Sean Speer. Instead, it should bring ...

By all means celebrate the return of the long-form Census, but remember the old saw that politicians tend to use ...

As part of the Financial Post's ongoing series dispelling many myths packaged as science, MLI's Philip Cross comes to the ...