Peter Shawn Taylor

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The trauma of high school gym class

Peter Shawn Taylor: Humiliations on the parquet floor linger long into adulthood and could even have public health consequences says a new study

September 10th, 2018

The de facto veto on building pipelines in Canada

Peter Shawn Taylor: The courts say there is no Indigenous ‘veto’ over resource projects, but on Trans Mountain it has effectively happened

September 7th, 2018

What it would really take to close the gender wage gap

Peter Shawn Taylor: A look at Nordic countries reveals the big obstacle to eliminating gender pay gaps is the preferences of female workers themselves

August 29th, 2018

Why Canadian baby boomers gave up on hitchhiking

Peter Shawn Taylor explains the rise and fall of the golden—and federally funded—age of hitchhiking

July 19th, 2018

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives on Parliament Hill before a meeting with B.C. Premier John Horgan and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, on the deadlock over Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Ottawa on Sunday, April 15, 2018. (Justin Tang/CP)

Buying a pipeline? It’s a great Canadian tradition.

Peter Shawn Taylor: Ottawa has repeatedly stepped up to get behind big, nation-building projects. What’s different this time is the opposition.

June 18th, 2018

The Ontario party platforms are thin gruel—the PCs the least thin

Peter Shawn Taylor: With little concern for fiscal responsibility and a total avoidance of hard choices, each of the party platforms offer slim pickings

June 4th, 2018

Why a ban on plastic straws sucks

Peter Shawn Taylor: Despite becoming the latest environmental supervillains straws are not to blame for polluting oceans, beaches or cities

May 13th, 2018

How one Ontario town used Uber to solve its public transit crisis

Opinion: Uber has already helped a small town move people from place to place. Can the ride-sharing service help bigger cities fight congestion?

May 10th, 2018

The marriage secret: it makes you richer and happier

With marriage rates in decline in Canada, why is no one talking about the benefits? Marriage is both a poverty fighter and predictor of success.

May 10th, 2018

Hollywood’s misguided fight against tipping in restaurants and bars

Opinion: Celebrities are casting tipping as yet another battle in the never-ending gender wars, but that’s unlikely to put an end to the practice—tips are a matter of economics, not sexual politics

May 3rd, 2018

Who else will like marijuana legalization? Economists.

An entire segment of the economy now needs to be properly accounted for and studied. It’s a massive and historic opportunity.

March 9th, 2018

Our increasing obsession with flying, and hating every second of it

Peter Shawn Taylor: If flying is such a complaint-ridden, exhausting nightmare, why is the rate of air travel heading relentlessly skywards?

February 13th, 2018

Donald Trump is making America more expensive for consumers

Opinion: Ignore Trump’s spin about saving American jobs. His protectionist measures, such as tariffs on washing machines, will drive up costs for households.

January 25th, 2018

Canada’s youth are the clear losers from a higher minimum wage

Opinion: Entry-level jobs shape your character, if you can manage to gain entry

January 8th, 2018

Murder, she wrote. The hot new literary trend.

A female sleuth, a comfortable setting and a distinctive hobby. What’s behind the explosion in so-called ‘cozy mystery’ series.

November 13th, 2017

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