Reading Time: 4 minutes The B.C. budget does little to improve the investment climate or mitigate the effects of policy changes emanating from the U.S.
Month: February 2018
Minimum wage hikes serving up uncertainty in food industry
Reading Time: 4 minutes A 32 per cent increase in the minimum wage in 12 months is simply irresponsible
One big asteroid could ruin the mining industry
Reading Time: 3 minutes The space race is on and the payoff is an untold cache of precious metals, large enough to completely dwarf the world’s biggest mining companies
Is Ottawa really committed to new resource development?
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s doubtful. Its plan to “improve” the NEB actually makes it more difficult and costly for business to navigate
Systemic racism or a protected, impartial process?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Gerald Stanley-Colten Boushie case has touched off a firestorm that reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of how our legal system works
America today: parallels to post-Gorbachev Russia uncanny
Reading Time: 3 minutes The parallels between Russia more than 20 years ago and the United States today are deeply disturbing
Pipelines are crucial to national prosperity
Reading Time: 3 minutes The battle between Alberta and B.C. over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has broad implications for all Canadians
Indigenous middle class key to closing tragic cultural chasm
Reading Time: 3 minutes The large and growing Indigenous middle class has shown us the way, by successfully integrating without any loss of their Indigenous culture and identity
Trudeau fiddles while Canada burns
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada is becoming a balkanized union of mini-fiefdoms at the mercy of Big Environment and narrow provincial interests
Political dynasties: destiny fulfilled or disaster in waiting?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Without her surname, there’s no way Caroline Mulroney would be considered a serious Ontario PC leadership candidate at this point in her career