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Tag: education

  • How to reduce youth unemployment

    This article was published in the Globe and Mail on October 16th 2025 Last Friday, labour-force statistics showed the unemployment rate held steady at 7.1 per cent in September and the youth jobless rate rose to 14.7 per cent. The difficulty young Canadians face in finding jobs drew considerable attention this summer. Commentators noted it was the…

  • A new immigration challenge for Canada

    This article was published in the Globe and Mail on November 6, 2024 Immigration was a key issue in the U.S. election campaign, and with both Democrats and Republicans campaigning on taking a tougher stand at the border, we should expect the United States to clamp down on the number of immigrants it allows in.…

  • There are better ways to fund universities

    This article was published in the Globe and Mail on September 18th under a different title: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-university-should-be-more-expensive-taxpayers-are-overly-subsidizing/ In response to concerns about declining university affordability, many provinces have limited tuition fee increases to below-inflation levels over the past few years, while Ontario has frozen them. This has forced universities to depend more on government funding…