Reading Time: 3 minutes Opportunities for unskilled and lower skilled workers are fast disappearing
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.
Too many negatives on negative income tax
Reading Time: 3 minutes A minimum income program or negative income tax sounds good, but the numbers do not work
Vancouver needs to add head offices
Reading Time: 4 minutes Compared to other larger Canadian centres, the Vancouver area isn’t doing too well
Changes to Foreign Worker Program could strangle Canadian economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Changes could also lead to rise in illegal workers
BC Ferries could learn a thing or two from Vancouver Airport Authority
Reading Time: 3 minutes YVR shows what can be done with a little entrepreneurial spirit
LNG has the potential to create thousands of BC jobs
Reading Time: 3 minutes B.C. can’t live off just tech and tourism
Dearth of software savvy people bad news for the economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Need for people who can tell computers what to do growing fast
How to fix Canada’s business immigration program
Reading Time: 3 minutes How to fix Canada’s business immigration program
Need for more retail space in decline
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why not rezone it for housing?
Building social license one step at a time
Reading Time: 3 minutes No one knows what it means or how to get it, but we know that, without it, projects are in jeopardy