Reading Time: 3 minutes Study shows Canadian kids see more than 25 million online food and beverage ads a year – mostly for junk food. It’s time for that to end
Month: July 2017
B.C. must develop a stronger corporate head office presence
Reading Time: 3 minutes Success on growing more locally-based companies and attracting firms from elsewhere would produce sizable economic dividends for the province
Concerns over household debt in Canada are overblown
Reading Time: 3 minutes The drop in interest rates has been so significant that the interest burden of servicing debt has declined as a share of income, despite growing household debt
An open and shut case: how the backfire effect closes minds
Reading Time: 3 minutes When evidence contradicts our deeply-held beliefs, we tend not to change our viewpoint but to become more entrenched
A vision for a booming, vital Manitoba
Reading Time: 5 minutes By narrowing government’s role in the economy, a new policy direction can kick-start growth and make the province a mecca for people and investment
The Summer of Love was a media event, not a revolution
Reading Time: 3 minutes People across the globe, of all classes, loved the music but could live without the hippy idea, thank you very much
Trudeau should accept responsibility for spending choices
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Liberals won’t commit to a specific timeline to balance the books even though the deficit this year is expected to reach $28.5 billion
Giving oil discounts or taking liberties with details?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The majority of oil produced in Canada is by companies with integrated operations in the U.S. There is no ‘captive market’ and no ‘discount’ because of it
Alberta is the engine that drives Canadian growth
Reading Time: 3 minutes What would Canada’s economy and public finances look like without Alberta? It wouldn’t be pretty
Forest fires torching a province’s economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes The long-term economic impact of the fires ravaging the British Columbia interior – including on the logging and tourism industries – will be devastating