Reading Time: 3 minutes Positive GDP growth, expected through 2024 despite pandemic challenges, deters chances of recession
Tag: Employment rate
Women are retiring in greater numbers – and that’s a problem
Reading Time: 3 minutes Health care, retail trade and education/social assistance sectors especially hard hit
Is Canada’s Employment Insurance system recession proof?
Reading Time: 3 minutes No. The need to broaden access and expand government contributions is urgent
What Canadians can expect in the coming year
Reading Time: 4 minutes The good news? Pandemic under control. The bad news? Very slow growth, high debt, higher taxes, high unemployment
In crisis, radicalism works against balance and progress
Reading Time: 4 minutes Far-left activists and politicians are recruiting and radicalizing in the same way far-right groups did back in the 2008 crash
Second time’s the harm when it comes to lockdowns
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s not the headlines that kill, it’s the many burdens caused by lockdowns that render small businesses unprofitable
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
Unemployment spike may trigger rethink of EI program
Reading Time: 3 minutes As the system increases in generosity and accessibility in Atlantic Canada, it may perpetuate the nation’s problems with EI
Invest in social infrastructure rather than handouts
Reading Time: 3 minutes It not only generates jobs in the short term, but results in greater productivity, employment and tax dollars in the future
Alberta spending restraint must start with MLAs
Reading Time: 3 minutes Unfortunately, the UCP’s rhetoric has been on-point but its bite hasn’t matched its bark