The Wall Street Journal had an excellent two-parter on Mark Carney's handling of a rather difficult situation: a century-long ally and d...

About a decade ago, Canada's Counsellor for Immigration at the High Commission in Canberra came to Wellington to explain how Canada'...

It would have been just one bad part of an overarching very silly policy. Exempting it from the policy regime I suppose makes the policy a b...

A closing of the browser tabs: New Zealand's space industry keeps growing. Here's BusinessDesk on Dawn Aerospace . So neat.  Americ...

The afternoon's worthies: How universities killed the academic . Great piece.  NZ Drug Foundation's report on drug use in 2022/23 . ...

The tabs did accumulate. A couple of worthies.  There will be no bailouts of local councils that neglected their pipes. Good.  Me, over in N...

Eight browser windows each full of tabs. Something's gotta give. Excellent quips from our Treasury Secretary in response to RBNZ pleadin...

I still hope that NZ looks over in horror at Canada and pulls back from making it risky for platforms to link to news. Facebook's clearl...

Others' idiocy can be a public boon, if the example serves as sufficient cautionary tale.  In a world of wishful thinking, if one countr...

My column in the weekend Dom went through Canada's messes in trying to make Google and Facebook subsidise Canadian newspapers.  The C...

The Canadian Parliament passed Bill C-18, which will require Meta to pay whenever it links to a Canadian news source. Canadian news publishe...

The accumulated worthies: Dave Heatley on the publicly-provided goods that should, and should not, draw user charges - and how to tell the d...

The closing of the tabs: By 2030, Canada's carbon tax and carbon dividend combo might have households seeing a net loss , rather than ne...

The tabs... Australia considering changes in governance at the Reserve Bank , including setting a Monetary Policy Committee. Hope that they ...

Today's closing of the tabs: Brian Albrecht on the economics of The Rings of Power . Numenor, not film subsidies. RBNZ uses spurious arg...

I was out on leave last week, touring around Lake Taupo with the family, hoping desperately for snow that didn't come.  We had fun anywa...

A typically superb piece from Colby Cosh, looking at the real cartel villains standing between him and a decent sandwich . The Canadian Dair...

My Dom Post column this week makes the case for a carbon dividend. Canada imposes a carbon tax on provinces that haven't their own carbo...

Canada might not be playing fair under the CPTPP.  Here's Farmer's Weekly: In the two years since the agreement came into force low-...

I just love this thread about Saskatoon's 1988 referendum on school store closing times. I'd not heard of it before; I was 12 years...