Reading Time: 3 minutes The B.C. government balked at applying the foreign buyer tax to pre-sale contracts, so property flipping won’t slow down and it certainly won’t stop
Month: March 2018
Alberta can learn big lessons from a small First Nation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Run a surplus when times are good. Don’t build up spending commitments that are unsustainable in less prosperous times
The Cambridge Analytica furor is mostly bunk
Reading Time: 3 minutes The truth is that gathering and deploying information to influence people’s voting behaviour has long been a staple of politics
Do you have the grit it takes to achieve success?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Research is slowly helping us understand the qualities we need in order to overcome obstacles on the way to our goals
The lessons of Rwanda seem lost on Canadians
Reading Time: 3 minutes We funded, educated and then sheltered the man who gave the Rwandan genocide its intellectual impetus. Will we make the same mistakes in Mali?
Meet the next generation of leaders in Eastern Europe
Reading Time: 4 minutes A visiting professor to Lithuania discovers a generation of bright, committed and principled students who aspire to change their world
Jiminy Crickets! The truth about bugs as food
Reading Time: 4 minutes Loblaw selling cricket flour under its precious President’s Choice label is a big deal. But in a lot of ways, it makes a great deal of sense
Kathleen Wynne’s desperate vote-seeking strategy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Wynne is looking for something – anything – that will stick to the wall to win the election, including going nuts with other people’s money
Elwy Yost and a land where the shadows are always like magic
Reading Time: 4 minutes Elwy Yost turned generations of young people into film buffs through his groundbreaking television programs
How to seed Alberta’s future as a tech giant
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s time for the provincial government to get involved in tech development by providing venture capital insurance