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Mark Milke is chairman of Canada’s Journal of Ideas – C2C Journal.ca, an occasional lecturer in Political Philosophy and International Relations at the University of Calgary and a Sunday columnist for the Calgary Herald. A Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute, he is also the author of three books. Mark’s columns and studies have been published and covered in newspapers across Canada on topics that range from human rights, federal-provincial transfer payments, automobile insurance, taxpayer subsidies for political parties, the flat tax, corporate welfare, airline competition and the Canada Pension Plan. In addition to the Fraser Institute, he has published papers with the Brussels-based Centre for European Studies.

Recent Posts

Election results reflect the economic reality of British Columbia's natural resource riches

May 21, 2013 - Those who value at least some program spending – or assert governments ought to do even more of it – ought to think long and hard...   Full Article

Tax subsidy fiction and other film industry fairy tales

Apr 23, 2013 - The recent announcement by B.C.’s New Democrats that, if elected, they’d up the provincial film tax credit for labour...   Full Article

Applying enlightened progressivism to the body politic could help derail the growth of government and union monopolies

Mar 19, 2013 - A sensible progressivism would focus on competition as the way to combat possible monopoly-type profits in the private sector and above-average...   Full Article

When it comes to budgets, governments in Canada are suffering from an escalating prudence deficit

Feb 26, 2013 - When the financial crisis hit five years ago, there was no shortage of analysts, politicians and pundits who thought what the world...   Full Article

The problem with aboriginal reserves starts with the reserves themselves

Jan 22, 2013 - How politics is conducted on reserves across Canada and how tax dollars are spent are only part of the problem for reserve residents   Full Article

Dashing democratic dreams in 2012

Jan 01, 2013 - A people’s passions and prejudices also matter, and those are rather difficult beasts to tame   Full Article

Energy uproar illustrates West’s growing parliamentary power

Dec 11, 2012 - As the last election showed, it is now possible to win a majority government by catering to the West and Ontario
   Full Article

Home prices: Are you feeling lucky?

Oct 30, 2012 - The assumption that home prices will never fall because of low interest rates is already on the verge of being proven false in Toronto and Vancouver   Full Article

More airline industry competition would help reduce high air fares for Canadian travellers

Oct 02, 2012 - Here's something else that Canadians deserve: full domestic competition of the sort that Europe has had for two decades   Full Article

Decrying Quebec’s eternal provincialism

Sep 04, 2012 - Only a ... leader so hopelessly provincial would feel the pathetic need to drag out Trudeau from beyond the grave   Full Article

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