Columns on surveillance pricing, housing, crypto and Canadian consumer markets — published in the Financial Post, National Post, and iPolitics.
Proposed bans on algorithmic pricing probably aren't workable, and wouldn't address meaningful harms even if they were.
On Mark Carney's Davos "rules-based order" pitch, Václav Havel's greengrocer, and the chasm between Canada's political slogans and its lived reality.
Investors see a fractured federation with a weaponized bureaucracy and a legal system that injects profound uncertainty into property rights and capitalism itself.
Developers stymied by political roadblocks are turning to the courts as a last resort — and they are starting to win.
Do we live in a country where citizens are free to build, innovate, and own property — or one where the state can arbitrarily wipe it all away in the name of procedure?
Our leaders must amend the Criminal Code to fortify the right to self-defence in one's home.
The Air Canada strike is the final, unambiguous signal that Canada's protectionist aviation policy has failed.
The public may desire a show of strength, but all Mark Carney can deliver is a negotiated surrender — dictated by the unyielding facts of geography and power.
Proportional representation is a recipe for the very things Canadians abhor: unstable coalitions beholden to fringe parties and a permanent political class insulated from accountability.
Harmonizing regulations is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. What's needed is a decisive and powerful economic jolt to restore confidence and spur investment.
Canada's political landscape is on the brink of an historic reckoning, with third and fourth parties that once shaped — and muddied — federal elections now paying the bill.
If there's one thing Canadians agree on, it's that grocery bills are out of control — but politicians keep ignoring the elephant in the room: supply management.
Where Richard's research and commentary have been quoted in the news.
Richard Ciano, quoted on a Campaign Research / Innovation Economy Council poll: most Canadians feel technology has improved their lives and view it as the most effective tool against climate change. Findings span AI, biomanufacturing and cleantech.