Reading Time: 3 minutes The idea might have some intuitive appeal but misses the bigger point – Toronto needs more housing
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Canada can build its economy without outside help
Reading Time: 3 minutes Time to put trillions of dollars in Canadian savings to work kickstarting the Canadian economy and stop going cap in hand to foreign sources
Repair Quebec’s finances by better controlling government pay
Reading Time: 3 minutes Enact measures that link the wages and benefits of government employees to similar positions in the private sector
Set aside the stereotypes and put young people to work
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need to tackle youth employment needs with more polytechnic education that uses work-integrated models of learning
Uncertainty discouraging mining investment in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Spending on exploration – the lifeblood of the industry – dropped for the fourth consecutive year and is at its lowest point since 2005
Are we witnessing the slow death of cooking?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recent surveys suggest the average adult spends more time watching cooking shows than actually cooking
Carbon could be the new staple of the Canadian economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Many Canadian are more likely to believe that our resource economy is dragging us down than that Canadian innovation talent is building us up
Banning log exports would harm B.C. economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Streamlining the log export process and reforming the PST better options to ensure a prosperous province
Creditors will be chief audience for Newfoundland budget
Reading Time: 3 minutes The financial problem facing the government is so large that it will need to borrow enormous amounts over the next five years, no matter what
Lock down your mortgage interest rate – now
Reading Time: 3 minutes The economy starts going in the little guy’s direction and the Fed raises interest rates to slow it down to keep wages low. How does that help anyone?