Reading Time: 3 minutes We can prevent tragedies like that in Attawapiskat by focusing on culture, connectivity and commerce
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.
Restaurant industry struggles to find staff
Reading Time: 3 minutes Even though fewer people are preparing their own meals, the restaurant industry is struggling to find staff and pay them more
A feel-good federal budget that fails to spark economic growth
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Liberals embrace a $30-billion deficit without making jobs a priority
Refugees are Canada’s latest wave of pioneers
Reading Time: 3 minutes The immediate social cost is high, but in the long run a large influx of immigrants will help build our society
Prepare government budgets from a future cost perspective
Reading Time: 3 minutes Weigh public spending on today’s programs against how much those programs will cost Canadians in the longer term
B.C. a safer investment bet than developing countries
Reading Time: 3 minutes At least in B.C., and Canada, we don’t have to donate half our business to a corrupt government or its cronies
Vancouver port jobs expendable on the Left Coast
Reading Time: 3 minutes Apparently not all Vancouverites understand the need for jobs
Let’s hold First Nations and unions more accountable
Reading Time: 3 minutes Surely First Nations and union leaders should be held to the same standards as other Canadians
Big banks face Uber-like threat
Reading Time: 3 minutes Big banks will survive only if they adjust to a world where their traditional dominant position can no longer be taken for granted
Tourism is B.C.’s great hope for 2016
Reading Time: 3 minutes Here’s why tourism is going to be even bigger and more important in 2016