Reading Time: 4 minutes How government can navigate a changing landscape to create the conditions for vigorous, ethical journalism and open, informed debate
Category: Business
China using its monetary policy as a weapon of war
Reading Time: 3 minutes China is conquering the world by creating money when it needs it and simply absorbing debt. Perhaps we should be copying them
Manitoba mining industry buried by policies, taxes
Reading Time: 3 minutes Mining investors dramatically downgrade Manitoba in annual survey. Only the provincial government can fix this
Catching a ride on the ‘creative destructive’ economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes As the taxi industry faces off with Uber, governments should let the marketplace sort out the winners and losers
Federal budget turned a blind eye to Canada’s economic challenges
Reading Time: 3 minutes Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s budget fails to address sluggish economic growth and declining business investment
Trade wars, food fights and a budget that ignores it all
Reading Time: 4 minutes Duties may look like attractive, simple mechanisms to protect domestic interests. But they’re a very expensive way to retain jobs
What does the future hold for Calgary’s economy?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The economy is experiencing its most significant transformation since the industrial revolution. It’s time for Calgary to get creative
Canada’s phoney debate about carbon taxes
Reading Time: 3 minutes A carbon tax added on top of the various bans, subsidies and tariff we already have in place only worsens regulatory inefficiencies
Balancing Alberta’s budget by 2023-24 isn’t good enough
Reading Time: 3 minutes Albertans have more debt, continued reliance on volatile natural resource revenue and higher taxes to look forward to
Raising minimum wages: good intentions, bad policy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Raising the minimum wage is a flawed strategy for achieving the critically important social objective of raising people out of poverty