OGGO takes centre stage as top committee arena for uncovering ‘scandals’ and ‘bombshells’
The House Government Operations and Estimates Committee’s work made headlines in 2023 for its scrutiny of government spending, including studies into the ArriveCAN app and McKinsey contracts.
Billionaire growth is out of control — and we’re paying the price
If we want to improve people’s lives, we may need to look at reversing half a century of regressive taxation and raise wages from the bottom up.
Liberals fail to provide leadership on green and digitalization transitions, opposition parties missing in action
What this paper from the three Innovation, Science and Economic Development analysts most importantly underlines is both the governmental failure to realistically acknowledge the big transitions we face, but also that, in the absence of a serious growth strategy going forward, we face a future of stagnation and the risk of a major brain and investment drain pursuit of greater opportunity elsewhere. That’s surely not what we want.
The Davos crystal ball: global risks in 2024 and beyond
As a recent World Economic Forum report observes, ‘The next decade will usher in a period of significant change, stretching our adaptive capacity to the limit.’
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.
