Does the planet need a new Bretton Woods Agreement and can Canada help?
The world is a very different place from when the World Bank and International Monetary Fund were created in the mid-1940s at Bretton Woods, N.H., and both the role and operational instruments they deploy must be modernized to address today’s very different challenges.
Trans Mountain’s next private sector loan likely to be significantly more expensive than last year’s ‘sweetheart deal,’ say observers
Former Liberal staffer Elliot Hughes says it was just fortunate timing that the pipeline company secured its first private loan last year while interest rates were still low, and not preferential treatment from the banks.
The politics of budget-making as Canadians brace for stagflation
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is trying to rein in spending at a time when the expected economic downturn could significantly worsen Ottawa’s deficit position.
No-cost contraception is the leadership Canada needs to follow
Here’s a reality check: we already pay for people’s sex lives. Unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections cost health-care systems significant sums every year.
Canada talks a big game, but its innovation sector doesn’t walk the talk
Federal policy, which is more transactional than strategic, is turning Canada into a branch plant economy—a derivative economy in which we help foreign corporations grow and profit in exchange for jobs, while making us dependent on maintaining the goodwill of foreign investors to keep those jobs.
Pause in interest rate hikes offers no ‘breather’ to Liberals politically, says pollster
The Conservative and NDP finance critics say the ‘relentless interest hikes’ and rising mortgage rates are creating ‘hardship’ for Canadians, and urge the government to look to other avenues to fight inflation.
Will Justin Trudeau stop the biggest beer tax increase on Canadians in 40 years?
The excise tax ‘escalator’ is badly flawed policy, and there are many valid reasons to defer further scheduled tax increases until inflation returns to more normal levels.
Health-care resourcing is failing Canada’s most vulnerable children
The pandemic exposed the fragility of Canada’s health-care system and removed access to necessary supports for thousands of Canadian families.
It’s on all of us to curb anti-democratic trends
Programs and initiatives that are context-dependent, local, and plentiful provide alternatives to the digital divide and our growing polarization through action and collective power.
Why Freeland’s next budget has to be an honest one
This cannot be another lost opportunity, because Canada can’t really afford that. Our future is at stake.
