Native American entrepreneur Chad Germann, 45, believes that the path to Indigenous entrepreneurial success is in careful thought and self-development. “You need to figure out a way to be valuable to others,” said Ger- mann, an enrolled member of the Mille Lacs Band...
"The current state of affairs in Canada is such that building a pipeline to tidewater is practically impossible," says Alberta Premier Rachel Notley. Truer words were rarely spoken. These ones were spoken at an August 30 press conference as the courts set back the...
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) is increasingly unable to turn its reported profits into cash. While BDC is considered to be a venture capitalist corporation, this does not seem to be the reason for its illiquidity; other companies in the same line of...
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) standards were devised back in 1975, amid anxiety over the OPEC oil embargo and supposedly imminent depletion of the world’s oil supplies. But recall, barely 15 years after Edwin Drake drilled the first successful oil well in...
If a public inquiry found that hundreds of millions of dollars was being funnelled by foreign entities to undermine Canadian industry, should we conclude there is nothing wrong? Remarkably, the public inquiry’s final report into anti-Alberta energy campaigns did the...
One-third of Canadian millennials prefer going solo when it comes to managing and investing their money. Online financial education and tools are changing the rules of the game and threatening to affect financial advisors how emails affected mailmen. A recent poll...
Deplorably, the federal government recently announced it was renewing the current equalization system in Canada. I say “deplorably” because the evidence is mounting that equalization is a millstone around the neck of the less-developed provinces seeking to escape...
Many observers think California urban areas are more geographically expansive ("lower density" or to use the pejorative term, more "sprawling") then those elsewhere in the nation, especially the Northeast Corridor, which runs from the Washington DC metropolitan area...
Everyone knew that Vancouver housing prices were criminal—they just didn’t know by how much. By now, many citizens are aware that offshore money, mostly from China, has been laundered through casinos and invested in properties which have often been flipped through...
Parents in the interior of British Columbia were shocked recently when their children came home from school with news of a new social awareness campaign...
Keeping Sask Power and being compelled to throw in more billions of dollars to keep it viable, or having an additional 15,000 teachers, nurses, or paramedics? This is the choice Saskatchewan would have if this Crown asset were sold. There are two generally accepted...
A growing problem for modern industrialized Western societies is the legion of government agencies and unelected bureaucrats and allied nongovernmental organizations that seem impervious to transparency, accountability or reform. Their expansive power often controls...
For First Nation entrepreneur Rhonda M. Dieni, 45, there is something more important to running a business than having a good product or service. “Don’t worry so much about your business, work on yourself and work through your life trials,” she said, in a phone...
We want simple answers. But, sometimes, there aren’t any. Take Manitoba’s child welfare system, for example. We want to find a solution to a problem that has plagued us for generations. What to do about the huge numbers of Indigenous children that are taken into the...
“If I earned $100,000 [all figures Canadian unless noted] in Canada, after tax I would keep $64,000. If I earned $100,000 in Hong Kong, and made use of the married man’s tax allowance, I would keep $90,100.”