The reworked Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement between Canada and ten other nations, now called the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership, is due to kick in at the end of this year. Even the boosterish federal government that heartily endorses the …
Cronies That Love the Revised NAFTA
Many advocates for cultural diversity have a sudden change of heart when the topic turns to Canada’s “cultural industries.” As they say in Argentina, for money, the monkey will dance. What constitutes Canadian heritage, given her complex milieu, tends to …
Fighting Poverty With Innovation and Capitalism
Yale University economist William Nordhaus was one of the winners of the Nobel Prize in economics this year for his work on analyzing the long-term economic impacts of climate change and climate policies. Quite appropriately, most media headlines focussed on …
Ease of Doing Business
One of the most important elements in the country’s economic health is “ease of doing business”.The world bank has issued it’s annual report on the subject and Canada is nowhere near the top.
Crowdfunding Democratizes Finance, and That’s Okay
When fundraising garnered leftover crumbs, the gatekeepers of finance barely cared to notice. Now digitized, it is garnering a growing portion of the financial pie and running into regulatory barriers and legal limbo in Canada. The critics of crowdfunding, particularly …
Employment Data Shows Canada’s Public Sector Getting Fatter
The most recent employment data from Statistics Canada shows a troubling trend. In Q3-2018, the ratio of private sector to public sector employees (excluding the self-employed) dipped to lows that – except for the period of massive “stimulus” spending by …
Death and Taxes: the Fundamental Unfairness of Taxing Estates
Recently, a long-dead and largely unlamented tax has been rediscovered, with some new-ish fans who never really repudiated their great love for it. It is the Death Tax, or Estate Tax, which was abolished in Canada in 1971 by a …
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