Reading Time: 3 minutes In Canada and the United States, wages are rising, poverty is falling and spending is on the rise – but we can’t be complacent
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.
CETA good for Europe, and good for us
Reading Time: 3 minutes A collection of labour organizations, environmentalists and other groups oppose CETA by ignoring the economic benefits and concentrating on other factors
How to get an education that pays off
Reading Time: 3 minutes Education institutions view students are customers, and offer programs students are lining up for, whether jobs will be there upon graduation or not
Are the days of teachers coming to an end?
Reading Time: 4 minutes No, but because of how students learn today means that the role of the teacher has to change drastically
Make your current employees your hiring allies
Reading Time: 3 minutes Your current workers can do a good job finding suitable workers for free or for a small cost
Innovative risk-takers will resurrect our economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes But we need a policy regime that encourages these innovators to find new ideas, then gets out of their way while they pursue them
How Brexit will affect Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Britain’s withdrawal from Europe may hurt Canada’s access to the much-larger European markets
Giving First Nations the power to flourish
Reading Time: 3 minutes Across Canada, significant projects have improved conditions in many communities, thanks to a funding model that demands accountability
Trump’s vision of economic prosperity so last century
Reading Time: 3 minutes A dangerous step back in time for the world’s most powerful nation
We can’t pretend to be richer than we are
Reading Time: 3 minutes Public bodies that budget beyond their means send the wrong social message and leave a legacy of debt