Canada needs more homes. It needs them urgently, at prices that ordinary families can afford. Yet with governments and the homebuilding industry struggling to address a deepening housing shortage, a troubling combination of tariffs, soaring diesel prices and the loss...

The views expressed in this column are solely those of the author.   We are not divided by our differences; we’re divided by what we do about them, and we’ve been doing some remarkably stupid things for a very long time. It just seems to me that nowadays there...