Andrew Coyne

Why the CBC should be more like HBO

Whatever their motives might be, the CBC’s antagonists are, on the whole, right

by Andrew Coyne - Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Decency alone can’t save Parliament

Andrew Coyne on an institution that’s largely irrelevant and increasingly impotent

by Andrew Coyne - Monday, November 28, 2011
A chance for the Liberals to take a chance

COYNE: The assumption the Liberals have a guaranteed place in Canadian politics is obsolete

by Andrew Coyne - Monday, November 21, 2011
Mark Carney: A central banker for a volatile age

Carney understands that policy isn’t just about making new rules

by Andrew Coyne - Monday, November 14, 2011
A grant dump that smothers innovation

What’s the result of the hundreds of billions of dollars the government spends on innovation? Bupkes.

by Andrew Coyne - Thursday, November 3, 2011
Minister overboard

Keeping meddling politicians out of the shipbuilding contract decision worked. Is there a lesson here?

by Andrew Coyne - Friday, October 28, 2011
A phony class war

Andrew Coyne on why the Occupy Wall Street movement has it wrong

by Andrew Coyne - Monday, October 24, 2011
Steve Jobs and Apple: somewhere between bohemia and business

From mere number-crunching marvels, Jobs made computers into tools for the artistic imagination

by Andrew Coyne - Friday, October 14, 2011
How Canadian conservatives lost their nerve

Andrew Coyne on the big leads squandered by the Manitoba and Ontario Tories

by Andrew Coyne - Friday, October 7, 2011
A state of perfect disharmony

COYNE: You’d think provinces would not have to be bribed to act in their own interest

by Andrew Coyne - Thursday, September 29, 2011
The brilliant John A. biopic

Who said Canadian history was devoid of excitement?

by Andrew Coyne - Monday, September 26, 2011
Election time and hyperbole is in the air

The election talk in Ontario over “foreign workers” has reached a new level of “huh?”

by Andrew Coyne - Monday, September 19, 2011
A Liberal-NDP merger just doesn’t add up

Andrew Coyne on why this is a case where two and two sum to a good deal less than four

by Andrew Coyne - Friday, September 9, 2011
The war on terror 10 years on

Andrew Coyne and Paul Wells debate the successes and failures of the world’s response after 9/11 and how safe we are today

by Andrew Coyne - Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Jack Layton’s last act on the public stage

Andrew Coyne on how Layton inspired the public even in the shadow of death

by Andrew Coyne - Friday, September 2, 2011
Everyone’s gone mad

Andrew Coyne on the facile explanations being used to explain the London riots

by Andrew Coyne - Tuesday, August 23, 2011
The $25,000 cow

That’s the average value of a milk quota per cow under a supply-management system

by Andrew Coyne - Monday, August 15, 2011
Two crises, but one is far more dangerous

COYNE: In the U.S. and Greece, fears of debt spirals compete with fears of default

by Andrew Coyne - Monday, July 25, 2011
A nation infected by scandal

Andrew Coyne on how the culture of corruption did not just infect Rupert Murdoch’s empire, but much of the British establishment

by Andrew Coyne - Monday, July 18, 2011
We’re all in the royal family

COYNE: Perhaps we’ve grown out of our insecurities—and growing into the monarchy

by Andrew Coyne - Friday, July 8, 2011