Reading Time: 3 minutes To take pressure off the cost of living in Vancouver, the city should build more housing units on its limited geographic footprint
Month: May 2017
Income tax a wartime measure that haunts us still
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the first 50 years after Confederation, the ethos was that taxing incomes weakened Canada’s competitive position. That changed in 1917
Look for leadership from within when our leaders fail us
Reading Time: 3 minutes Is it okay to take credit for the work of others and refuse responsibility for our own mistakes?
The financial road less travelled still offers a trustworthy route
Reading Time: 3 minutes Control your own financial destiny by doing your homework, finding boutique advisers and using your TFSA to its maximum potential
The hard facts on B.C.’s softwood lumber dilemma
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s time B.C. pushed hard to diversify its economy, improved its infrastructure, and looked for new and stable markets for its lumber products
From farm to fork, brought to you by artificial intelligence
Reading Time: 3 minutes With AI, yields can be improved and grocers can understand consumers – and predict their behaviour – better than consumers know themselves
Are Canada’s public schools truly for everyone?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Saskatchewan ruling gives provinces the impetus to explore the alternatives to forcing children, against their parents’ will, into secular public education
The 100-day dash: how much did Trump accomplish?
Reading Time: 6 minutes On foreign policy, Trump has acted aggressively. On domestic policy, the record is mixed. But he has moved with force to reverse environmental protections
Fix the exchange rate, solve the U.S.-Canada trade problem
Reading Time: 3 minutes At the heart of almost every trade dispute between our countries is the wildly-fluctuating value of Canada’s dollar
Future Tory leader must look to the past for role models
Reading Time: 3 minutes If the next Conservative Party of Canada leader doesn’t maintain and build on the Mulroney-Harper legacy, he or she is doomed to failure