Reading Time: 3 minutes An entry-level job teaches many things you don’t learn in school: getting to work on time; getting along; dealing with deadlines and customers
Author: Roslyn Kunin
Dr. Roslyn Kunin is president of the Vancouver Institute and has been chair of the Vancouver Stock Exchange, WorkSafe BC, and Haida Enterprise Corporation. She has also been on the boards of the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) and the National Statistics Council.
B.C. tech sector held back by skills shortage
Reading Time: 3 minutes There is a growing mismatch between those still out of work and the vacancies that many employers desperately seek to fill
The post-truth world of the U.S. lumber industry
Reading Time: 3 minutes American duties on Canadian softwood may increase the profits of U.S. lumber producers, but they also increase housing prices and reduce construction jobs
The not-so-hidden message in Hidden Figures
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hopefully the movie Hidden Figures will inspire British Columbians to improve their technical skills, leading to a happy ending
Hats off to Canada’s education system
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our students and their teachers deserve praise for exceptional PISA test results, but Canadians need to make continued education a priority
Thank corporations for driving job growth
Reading Time: 3 minutes And where else do citizens turn for financial support for the local football team or the children’s hospital when the governments turn them down?
Finding new markets will ease impact of U.S. protectionism
Reading Time: 3 minutes As Canada integrates more and more into the global economy, it will matter to us less and less that the United States withdraws
When economic reality bites a civil society
Reading Time: 3 minutes Passing laws we don’t have the economic resources to fulfil is fruitless: Canadians must craft a legal reality we can actually afford
Young entrepreneurs will lead the way for Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes To ensure our economy is not bogged down with old ideas, we need bright, young people with fire in the belly and a taste for the new and innovative
Open trade will do more for the poor than a ‘living wage’
Reading Time: 3 minutes Free markets and open borders are what keep the costs of food and other goods that we buy down