Reading Time: 3 minutes … don’t expect any growth to come from these sectors
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.
Unskilled workers are suddenly back in vogue
Reading Time: 3 minutes Employers are now actively looking for unskilled workers – those with the skills that don’t require a post-secondary education
Small business not so small after all
Reading Time: 4 minutes 98% of us work for small or medium firms
New TPP trade deal offers huge long-term gain
Reading Time: 3 minutes Freer trade under the TPP will lower tariffs barriers, open up new markets, and provide new customers to Canadian producers
Staying healthy key to meeting aging population challenge
Reading Time: 3 minutes A smaller share of workers in a society generally means less production and slower growth
Canada can play hardball on softwood
Reading Time: 4 minutes Strong demand and reduced supply is pushing up the price of lumber
Canada’s political parties economically illiterate
Reading Time: 3 minutes A simple cost/benefit analysis would kibosh many of their proposals
Housing costs driving youth out of Vancouver
Reading Time: 3 minutes The young and the mobile are exercising their right to just leave
Quebec an easy back door to Canada for immigrant investors
Reading Time: 3 minutes The old rules under the defunct Immigrant Investor Program still apply in Quebec
Overtime a relic from old economic order
Reading Time: 3 minutes The traditional employees’ share of the workforce is falling as more and more people work part time, part year, on contract or as self-employed