What parts of the world have given rise to the most successful entrepreneurs? This is a question which is answered in the superentrepreneurs project. This project is about studying high-end entrepreneurship and focuses on the close to 2 500 individuals in the world...
Economy
Loonie Can Fly – Even Soar – Just Set Energy and Other Industries Free
Canada’s ‘loonie’, as Canadians commonly and affectionately call our currency, continues to suffer compared to the United States’s dollar. Ten years ago Canada’s dollar was equal to the U.S. dollar, and imports from the U.S. we’re almost 40% cheaper than now. Now...
Grey Matter Podcast: The World Economic Forum is Planning the Theft of Canada?
In this episode Constitutional Lawyer Leighton Grey and Robert McCarter have a conversation about how he came to learn about an alarming agenda set forth by Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum at a dinner party, the research he’s done in lieu of learning this...
Coming Economic Maelstrom Completely Unnecessary
With one action, in one week, the whole world will boom. I am sharply aware that the upper middle class, the people I grew up among, studied and worked with do not give a damn about the less fortunate. They can’t. They don’t have agency, they have effectively...
Featured News
Cities Have to Expand for House Prices to Fall
The cost of actually building a house does not vary that much across Canada The Ford government’s plan to expand the land supply available for housing has evoked the usual dog whistles about “urban sprawl” by interests apparently unaware of the strong...
How We Teach Reading Really Does Matter
Reading is the most important skill taught in school. If students don’t learn how to read, not much else that happens there is going to matter. That’s because being able to read is important in virtually every job. Without the ability to read, life itself will be a...
Raising Income Taxes, Instituting Wealth Taxes on the Affluent Will Hurt Growth, Prosperity and Jobs
Lately, calls by self-identified ‘progressives’ and others who purport to champion ‘equity’ and compelling everyone to pay their ‘fair share’ have grown louder; even more shrill and strident. It seems that ‘social justice warriors’ have rediscovered their previously...
Big Debts on The Prairies: A Burden for Future Generations
The Prairie provinces’ debts have grown colossally during the COVID-19 pandemic, just as they have in the rest of Canada and the world. Indeed, at the end of 2020, Alberta’s debt was estimated to be $98 billion, Manitoba’s $28.6 billion and Saskatchewan’s $15...
Free Trade between UK and Canada: Strengthening the Commonwealth
Brexit allows the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to have an independent trade policy which was before the competence of the European Union. But on the other side, the UK has to remake and resign the different treaty; the European law and the...
Countries Need More Tax Competition, Not Less: Push for Corporate Minimum is Cartel Intimidation
World leaders should resist U.S. pressure to enact a global minimum corporate tax. It would harm corporations, small companies, workers and consumers while discouraging investment and wealth creation. If anything, the world needs more competition for post-pandemic...
How Canada is Botching Cryptocurrency Mainstreaming
The Canadian crypto industry knew mainstream adoption would inevitably come with a regulatory load, especially after the 2019 collapse of the largest exchange at the time, QuadrigaCX. Participants, however, did not expect regulators to come with one of the most...
The Modest Recharge: Transformative Post-COVID Economic Recovery for Canada
Canadians want change. It has been more than a generation since we have felt the overreaching power of government as in the past year. Daily freedoms have been curtailed, millions of livelihoods impaired, savings drained and countless fines and arrests created for new...
The Arctic Maritime Routes: Future Trade Opportunities for Canada?
The six-day blockage of the Suez Canal has highlighted the vulnerability of trade routes. Some critical geographic points like the canals are strategic and can threaten the world maritime trade if blocked. Around 80 per cent of the volume of international trade in...
Work at Home: An Opportunity for Business?
The "stay at home" orders issued in many countries have changed working habits. The mandatory "work at home" for office jobs has created a debate about work after the health crisis. Will we continue to work at home or will we return to the office? Some have stated...
Housing Bubble Stems from Exorbitant Deficits: Feds Need to Attract Investment, Not Debt
The macro effects of government stimuli to address COVID-19 lockdowns are starting to emerge. In Canada, they have taken the form of an overheating housing market. With mortgage rates plunging to historic lows, the demand for residential real estate is driving prices...