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Published in the Financial Post on April 8, 2011 By Finn Poschmann When Jon Kesselman of Simon Fraser University and I published "A New Option for Retirement Savings: Tax-Prepaid Savings Plans," the roadmap for what was to become TFSAs, we had high hopes for tax free savings accounts. I doubt we would have believed anyone who told us that in less than 10 years' time nearly five million Canadians…

Published in the National Post on March 22, 2011 By Colin Busby Do you have a sharp pain in your stomach that won't go away? If yes, you may soon visit an emergency room for help. Your next decision is whether to go to Toronto General, Western, St. Michael's, etc., for service. As an aid, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care posts online monthly updates of average ER wait times for…

Published in The Toronto Star on July 21, 2011 By Benjamin Dachis and Don Dewees After years of concern that Ontario would not have enough electricity, the province has increased generation capacity and now has the problem of periodically having too much electricity. The best way to solve this problem is, perhaps counterintuitively, to pay producers to stop generating. In many hours so far…

Published in the Financial Post on June 29, 2011 By Finn Poschmann The federal Parliament in 2009 handed Canada’s competition commissioner, Melanie Aitken, awesome legal power, and she is using it. She is free to do so — pending potential court reversals, or pending legislative change — but the current law raises serious concerns among economists and legal scholars. It also threatens big costs…

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