Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada holds a weak hand as NAFTA re-negotiations begin. More attention needs to be paid to the challenges weighing down the Canadian export economy
Author: Jock Finlayson
B.C. must develop a stronger corporate head office presence
Reading Time: 3 minutes Success on growing more locally-based companies and attracting firms from elsewhere would produce sizable economic dividends for the province
Why NAFTA and Canada are important to the U.S. economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes An open letter to President Trump as the U.S. prepares to renegotiate NAFTA
Canada’s investment recession drags on
Reading Time: 3 minutes The collapse of global oil prices, coupled with weak prices in other commodity markets, a key factor behind Canada’s investment slump
Canada’s over-hyped clean-tech revolution
Reading Time: 3 minutes Elected officials are wrong to think that “clean tech” is about to reshape the Canadian economy
Growing more large companies should be key policy goal for B.C.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Fast-growing firms, in particular, play a disproportionate role in driving job creation and economic dynamism
Freelance job market booming, but there are real risks
Reading Time: 3 minutes The spread of gig work affects the economic and social well-being of households, from issues with earnings to labour standards concerns
Trump’s energy, environmental policies threat to Canadian business
Reading Time: 3 minutes If Canada introduces national carbon pricing and the United States doesn’t, how are our businesses expected to compete?
Without pipelines, Canada’s prosperity is on the line
Reading Time: 4 minutes FINLAYSON: Will lead to a loss of full-time, well-paying jobs, shrunken energy industry supply chains across the country, and diminished revenues for governments
Economic silver linings for Canada in the Trump cloud
Reading Time: 3 minutes Buck up Canadians. Trump’s pledge to lift the U.S.’s anemic economic growth rate can only be good news for Canada