Reading Time: 3 minutes The typical Canadian mall is an example of the interplay of energy systems, carrying the weight of a functioning society with them
Category: Business
Liberal Finance Minister Morneau detached from economic reality
Reading Time: 4 minutes The minister of finance seems worryingly detached from the policies of his ministry, their effect and the state of the economy
Beware of politicians bearing (election) gifts
Reading Time: 3 minutes Candidates tie themselves in knots dangling a return to the good old days. Unfortunately, the past doesn’t offer any solutions to our problems
Why don’t Canadian fund managers invest in their own country?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Why do Canadian governments look for investment help abroad? And why won’t Canadian fund managers invest in homegrown projects?
Creative class millennials revolutionize small-town life
Reading Time: 3 minutes Big cities were going to be nirvana for artists, designers and technology freaks. But high costs are leading them to happy lives in rural settings instead
Canada’s over-hyped clean-tech revolution
Reading Time: 3 minutes Elected officials are wrong to think that “clean tech” is about to reshape the Canadian economy
Revenue wells run dry in Newfoundland and Labrador
Reading Time: 3 minutes The latest provincial budget continues a risky strategy: spending far beyond the government’s means, as the debt continues to pile up
Should the energy sector trust Canadians?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Many Canadians are hypocrites: they want to have their energy cake and burn it, too
CETA set to dramatically alter Canada’s dairy industry
Reading Time: 3 minutes A clear road map to make our dairy sector more competitive is urgently needed as it faces more European imports
Community papers stay true to their roots
Reading Time: 3 minutes Community newspapers will survive because nobody else is going to tell the stories they do