Reading Time: 3 minutes For business, an ideology-driven agenda – whether from the right or the left – doesn’t create favourable conditions for investment
Author: Doug Firby
Doug Firby is an award-winning editorial writer with more than four decades of experience working for newspapers, magazines and online publications in Ontario and western Canada. Previously, he served as Editorial Page Editor at the Calgary Herald.
56 Strategic buildings in area forced into receivership
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Calgary-based real estate firm had sought creditor protection for the properties, citing a 26 per cent vacancy rate in the city’s downtown core
Alberta will get one more chance to set a new course
Reading Time: 4 minutes Alberta’s economy needs a break after five brutal years since oil prices fell, driving our economy into an agonizing period of stasis
Taxpayers are often the losers in the incentive game
Reading Time: 4 minutes When one government offers incentives and another one doesn’t, then the competition to attract new businesses is no longer a level playing field
Alberta’s UCP needs the feds to get Trans Mountain done
Reading Time: 4 minutes It was actually the federal Liberals and Alberta’s previous NDP government that did the heavy lifting needed to get the project started
Wexit threatening Alberta’s economic recovery
Reading Time: 4 minutes The worst thing Alberta can do is let the Wexit debate linger. A never-ending debate will only trigger a permanent loss of economic power and status
Upstart entrepreneur shows Albertans how to face our dragons
Reading Time: 4 minutes John Evans shows that hardworking and risk-taking Albertans can innovate their way out of our economic doldrums
‘Firewall’ tactics won’t do much to boost Alberta
Reading Time: 4 minutes As cathartic as it may be, it’s unclear that anything Kenney has prescribed will do much to improve the business climate in this province
Calgary’s The Bow a painful reminder of all that has gone wrong
Reading Time: 4 minutes This frustrating federation has twisted itself into such a state of dysfunction that Encana, Canada’s greatest energy company, has concluded it’s time to leave
With a little help, clean tech will revive Alberta’s economy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Let’s hope our government has the vision to ensure we make the most of this golden opportunity