Reading Time: 4 minutes The National Housing Strategy’s $40-billion investment is good news for Canada. But the devil is in the details
Month: December 2017
Social media strategies to grow your business
Reading Time: 3 minutes Shred employee turnover, improve ROI, and increase the lifetime value of your customers
‘Fairness’ rhetoric masks an income tax imbalance
Reading Time: 3 minutes Not only does the top one per cent pay a disproportionate share of Canada’s taxes, its share has increased over the past two decades
Monitoring the effectiveness of our prescription medications
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s time we stepped up our system of drug surveillance to track why drugs are prescribed and their outcomes
When speech isn’t free, society pays a high price
Reading Time: 3 minutes A recent incident at the University provides a glimpse of what the future may hold for Canadian post-secondary education – and it ain’t pretty
Canada’s economic dilemma: resource rich, investment poor
Reading Time: 4 minutes Across the country, governments seem intent on discouraging investment, and that hurts job creation, productivity and wage growth
Can globalization sustain the economic tide that raises all ships?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite its status as an economic superpower, it is the U.S., under Donald Trump, that is shaping the narrative on the abuses of globalization
Let private enterprise retail cannabis in Nova Scotia
Reading Time: 3 minutes A private retail model offers more entrepreneurship overall and better distribution, particularly in rural areas
How to spark entrepreneurship in students
Reading Time: 3 minutes Students should be encouraged to think beyond their own thesis research project and consider other options – such as entrepreneurship – for their career
Civic renewal that drains the soul – and people – from communities
Reading Time: 4 minutes When investor neighbourhoods replace residential ones, civic sustainability is the big loser