Pensions and retirement income issues do not play a large role in the 2019 federal election party platforms. The shared assumption is that existing arrangements are working reasonably well,...
Imagine a future where seniors are not hospitalized for chronic issues but instead live in the comfort of their own digitally equipped smart home. A home directly connected to...
(This article has been translated into French.) Growing Canada’s agriculture sector must be a strategic priority for the next government. Our economic growth in the 2020s and our position in...
Are Canadians fated always to be “hewers of wood and drawers of water,” our prosperity dependent on raw resources rather than our ingenuity? Canada has the right conditions for...
“Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear — and what they want to hear is what won’t happen.” Paul Samuelson In September 2006, a then relatively...
France’s plan to tax tech companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon has recently made the news, mainly due to the threats from the United States to impose...
One of the hardest things about governing a country or a province or a city is the task of getting finances back in order after a period of deficit...
Canadian businesses of all sizes feel the impacts of global standards, directly or indirectly. These standards affect Canadian companies because they either form the basis for our domestic laws...
Grâce à la montée du prix mondial du pétrole ― interrompue brièvement par la récession de 2008 ― et aux prix particulièrement élevés et stables de 2010 à 2014,...
Tax-Free Savings Accounts were designed to help lower-income Canadians put money away for retirement. But a decade into the program, new research shows that TFSAs are primarily benefitting higher-income...
