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…
Pipelines are crucial to national prosperity
Reading Time: 3 minutes The battle between Alberta and B.C. over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has broad implications for…
Indigenous businessman decries Canada Summer Jobs edict as ‘insidious’
Reading Time: 3 minutes Compares the government's rule change to the reviled Indian Act for imposing ironclad status-quo thinking
Using student job funding to silence critics
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Liberals’ latest decision means summer employment is now a testing ground for ideological adhesion, obedience…
Ontario’s wrong-headed energy policy burns 75,000 jobs
Reading Time: 3 minutes The province’s manufacturing sector may find itself even less competitive soon due to developments in the…
Fed’s Clean Fuel Standards will kill jobs: Just look at Ontario
Reading Time: 3 minutes The soon to-be-announced clean fuel regulations are just the latest example of politicians catering to climate…
Future work: intelligence everywhere but few humans on the job
Reading Time: 3 minutes The next decade will see unprecedented changes in the workforce. Jobs will vanish and new jobs…
The human touch: people squeezed out of the workforce by AI
Reading Time: 3 minutes Artificial intelligence is beginning to tackle critical-thinking jobs. Humans is to focus on skills that machines…
Killing the goose that laid the golden egg
Reading Time: 4 minutes Increasingly harsh and ever-shifting resource-related government policies are killing jobs and making Canadians poorer
The short-circuit in Ontario’s manufacturing sector
Reading Time: 3 minutes The province’s high electricity prices – driven by wrong-headed policies – are responsible for a staggering…