From misappropriating IP to taxation without representation and poor pandemic management, what’s to like about the WHO? My recent piece in the Financial Post, here.
Richard C. Owens: The Emergencies Act wasn’t the only sledgehammer
The invocation of the Emergencies Act against the Freedom Convoy was egregiously wrong, a heavy-handed abuse by a callous government. But while it got all the attention, a civil action, which is as troubling, began. My op-ed in the Financial Post.
Richard C. Owens: Quebec gets the constitution right (on drug price control)
The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board is unconstitutional. Op ed from the Financial Post is here.
Richard C. Owens: On vaccine patents, the logic of bandits
Perhaps private enterprise and intellectual property have never served us so well as during the COVID-19 pandemic when, with sudden vaccines and numerous new therapies, the life sciences industry saved the world. In spite of that, short-sighted and spiteful people argue for seizing the intellectual property, of all types, relating to COVID-19 vaccines, therapies and devices through a World Trade Organization intellectual property waiver. In the Financial Post, I write why this is a bad idea. My op-ed is here.
Richard C. Owens: Universities should stop stealing copyright material
It turns out that widespread stealing of copyright-protected material by universities and the education sector generally isn’t cheap after all. Universities bloat their payrolls to feign fairness. My article in the Financial Post is here.
2020 Hindsight
Here’s my piece for the National Post, reflecting on the lessons of 2020.