Category: Eye on Canada

Eye on Canada

by Jay Goldberg | Mar 24, 2026

The last province known for fiscal discipline is now spending like Ottawa

Fees are climbing, debt is rising and results barely change. Ratepayers are paying more for a garbage system that shows little sign of improvement

Years of overspending have left Saskatchewan taxpayers paying hundreds of millions every year just to service the debt

The moment doctors can bill both the public and private systems, the public one starts to lose

Years of deficit spending are making it harder for Gen Z to build the kind of financial security earlier generations took for granted

Any softening toward China weakens the shield that protects our security and our economy

Britain has survived royal scandals before, but the Crown’s days in Canada are fading

A Manitoba court case raises a simple question: should legal aid bankroll organizations that can afford their own lawyers?

Oil, diesel and fertilizer prices are already climbing. Food prices tend to follow

Energy abundance is economic and geopolitical leverage

Without small modular reactors powering remote projects, Canada’s vast resources will stay in the ground

Prices may be slipping and interest rates easing, but homes remain far out of reach for many Canadians

We already saw what heavy-handed vaccine mandates did during COVID-19. Doing it again will only deepen the distrust