Canada needs to do more to scale-up our top young tech companies
Focusing only on recovery from the current economic slowdown is not the end game: that should be the creation of a new Canadian economy with a growing number of high-value domestic businesses that can flourish in the global economy.
Business groups sound alarm on fast-approaching CEBA’s loan payback deadline as feds look to soften potential blow
The Canada Emergency Business Account delivered more than $49-billion to nearly 900,000 small businesses and non-profits, but Canadian Chamber of Commerce president Perrin Beatty says ‘it would be tragic to have brought these businesses this far, and then to lose them 200 feet from shore.’
We need to build hope based on productive wealth creation: this is our biggest challenge
This is a world of despair, not hope. This extends well into the middle class, as consumer confidence surveys show. Per capita GDP continues to decline. As a consequence, social stability is becoming more at risk.
Despite growing talk of a recession in 2024, affordability remains key frame for economic issues, say observers
Until someone loses their own job, a recession is ‘theoretical’ to them, but everyone needs to pay for items like food and shelter, said Christian Bourque of Leger Marketing.
Why a sugar-sweetened beverage tax is a plus for all Canadians
If the federal government doesn’t want to be seen as a laggard in the fight against chronic disease, now is the time for it to implement a Canada-wide sugar-sweetened beverage tax.
An open letter to the prime minister: Canada needs to recalibrate how we engage with other nations this year
Canadian foreign policy must be steadfastly oriented towards Canada’s core long-term strategic priorities and national interest. Unfortunately, with the exception of the Indo-Pacific Strategy, Canadian foreign policy in recent years has frequently appeared, instead, to be reactive and unfocused.
Canada’s in trouble, and we must respond
We lack an economy that can sustain our standard of living going forward. Without change, young Canadians face a much diminished future.
Affordability will remain a top political issue in 2024 after inflation stalls in latest CPI report, say observers
With inflation holding at 3.1 per cent, the Bank of Canada may wait until the summer to start cutting interest rates, instead of starting as early as the spring, said business prof Ian Lee.
Canada’s economy in an extraordinarily vulnerable position
We have made ourselves hostage to a declining industry—oil and gas—while failing to effectively develop a competitive green economy for the future. Where are the industries that will create the wealth, deliver high-value exports to pay our way in the world, raise our productivity and provide the means to sustain our way of life as oil and gas fade in significance? Near-shoring or friend-shoring won’t solve our problems.
Budget 2024 must tackle supply constraints
We must have a new mindset that puts a much higher priority in pursuing supply-side solutions in a supply-constrained world.
