Reading Time: 3 minutes For the middle class to thrive, we need to ramp up investment in infrastructure that improves productivity and reduce trade barriers
Author: Jock Finlayson
Two reasons why average families in Vancouver can’t afford housing
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Vancouver area’s sky-high real estate market looks even more inflated when seen in conjunction with the city’s below-average incomes
Green energy future still a long way off
Reading Time: 4 minutes Important shifts in production and consumption notwithstanding, any global energy revolution is still a long way off
B.C. needs to step up its game on innovation
Reading Time: 4 minutes A nimble economy requires innovation in such areas as tax policy, an educated workforce and immigration policy
Commodity slump weighing on Canadian and global economies
Reading Time: 3 minutes Widespread commodity price declines will depress the national economy through this year and probably into 2017
Canadian economy will remain sluggish in 2016
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Canadian economy continues to be weighed down by sluggish world growth and dismal commodity markets
Memo to Finance Minister Bill Morneau
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada faces stiff economic headwinds and your largely uncosted election promises could easily amount to many billions of extra dollars
Canada counting on US consumer for economic growth
Reading Time: 3 minutes How Canada fares in 2016-17 will hinge, in large part, on developments in the United States
3 reasons why we don’t need to worry about inflation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Central bankers and Finance Ministers are less worried about inflation than they are about reviving growth
Interest rate cut underscores Canada’s gloomy economic prospects
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Bank of Canada is acknowledging that the energy-related downturn is worse than expected