Reading Time: 3 minutes Mining investors will flock to jurisdictions that have attractive policies, and capital will follow, along with the ancillary benefits of jobs and tax revenue
Month: February 2018
Stepping beyond stereotypes to right wrongs
Reading Time: 3 minutes The key is to focus on acceptable and unacceptable actions, not the ethnicity or gender of the actor
Paradise lost: dark economic clouds gather over Spain
Reading Time: 3 minutes The world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, is betting against Spain. Investors should wonder why
China’s foreign garbage ban reveals recycling’s weakness
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recycling seems like a neat solution until we can’t dump our garbage on another country and have to deal with it ourselves
Machinations of mandarins greatest threat to government action
Reading Time: 3 minutes There always will be those few political appointees who aspire to little more than their entitlements, but most desire to be useful and effective
Investing with your conscience – and with common sense
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ethical investing is a bit broader than donating, since the benefits extend beyond supporting a cause to also expecting a financial return
Any pension fund fiasco is one too many
Reading Time: 4 minutes The plight of Sears pensioners has once again ignited calls for change but the federal government seems content to sit on its hands
Trial by tweet: heads drop in the basket without trial
Reading Time: 3 minutes The #MeToo movement has ushered in a revolution that discards hard-won concepts like the presumption of innocence and due process
Salvaging the Ontario PC wreckage
Reading Time: 3 minutes Five clear policy ideas that will resonate with the province’s voters and make a party leadership candidate stand out
Canada’s new superclusters could just be black holes
Reading Time: 4 minutes The government thinks that if industry doesn’t see fit to use its own money to stimulate innovation, perhaps taxpayer money should be the fire starter