Should online sales on foreign websites be taxed?

Gentrification is a process whereby middle-class families and young professionals establish themselves in working-class urban neighbourhoods. By no means unique to Montreal, this process has generated some resistance on the part of anti-gentrification activists, some of whom have resorted to violent means in the belief that they are being displaced. Yet gentrification is a widespread phenomenon that yields largely beneficial outcomes for everyone—including the poorest members of society—and whose negative effects can be mitigated by sound economic policy.

Gentrification, when combined with sound housing policy, helps everyone, including the poor.

Gentrification, when combined with sound housing policy, helps everyone, including the poor.

Google's Android operating system for smartphones under investigation.

Air travel is stifled in Canada due to poor public policy with regard to airports and airlines.

The state of competition in credit-card markets.

The development of new drugs allows patients to lead longer, healthier lives and leads to savings elsewhere in the health care system.

The Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for the presidency of the United States, Donald Trump, has made the negative effects of the opening up of borders, and especially of trade between the United States and Mexico, one of his recurring themes. He claims that free trade does not benefit the United States. According to him, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is “a disaster” that needs to be renegotiated. In Canada, this opposition to free trade finds a certain echo among commentators and lobby groups.

The positive effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement for the three countries involved.