Reading Time: 4 minutes Vancouver is considering a tax on vehicles entering the downtown. It may well reduce pollution, but at what cost?
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.
Getting through a COVID-19 winter, one joke at a time
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hugs would help – real physical ones, from family and friends we can’t visit or get close to. But we’re not there yet, so make someone smile
Investing in human capital will pay huge dividends
Reading Time: 3 minutes The value we add will be in the creative ways we use new tools to generate new ideas and outputs, and to solve old problems
Getting through a COVID-19 winter
Reading Time: 3 minutes A better future awaits if we use this period of uncertainty to work on our mental, physical and career well-being
It’s time Canada stopped protecting its dairy industry
Reading Time: 4 minutes Governments tend to forget about consumers when managing supply. Open trade to more cheese and challenge our farmers
Creation of a common market first step to economic recovery
Reading Time: 4 minutes If the European Union with 27 very diverse countries and several languages can do it, why can’t Canada?
We don’t need elections now, we need leadership
Reading Time: 4 minutes Elections will turn us away from dealing with the real issues. And we don’t seem to have the means to conduct safe voting
Spotting and tackling prejudice
Reading Time: 3 minutes Move away from false statements and over-generalizations and recognize everyone as individuals
Finding work in a pandemic
Reading Time: 3 minutes Offer to do what needs to be done on a contract basis. Since there’s no long-term commitment, it’s easier for the employer to agree
We can’t dodge deficits and debt forever
Reading Time: 3 minutes A government deficit is sometimes necessary but we need plans in place to eliminate it and reduce the debt