competition

Start by removing some of the policies that shield Canadian companies from competition and give them less incentive to innovate

When Ottawa first decided to boost competition in the wireless market back in 2008, it seemed like a relatively straightforward process: set aside wireless airwaves for new entrants, and then sit back and watch the free market provide consumers with more choice and lower prices.

Despite big investments to spruce up stores and expand menus, once-thriving restaurant chains are suddenly struggling to get ahead

Canada’s team first travelled to the Olympic Summer Games in London in 1912.

Contest helps share science

Melanie Aitken has taken on everyone from the real estate industry, to credit card companies, to airlines

A competitive smartphone market is resulting in a lot of lawsuits

Hutterite-run firms don’t pay their workers wages or seek big profits. Competitors say it’s unfair.

Transit and traffic are emerging as major issues in the Toronto mayoral election, with rival candidates unveiling proposals to replace streetcars, build a tunnel under the downtown, extend subways or add bike lanes, almost daily. It might be of interest, then, to know what the great urbanist Jane Jacobs, patron saint of the Annex, thought about it all. Here she is in an absorbing interview with Reason magazine, from June 2001:

Canadian and U.S. airlines are limited to cross-border runs

Soccer is billed as ‘the beautiful game,’ but like any sport it is a partisan affair—and the better for it

When the U.S. tied England, it was as good as a victory