The United Kingdom is inching closer to the end of its transition period between leaving the European Union and officially dropping its existing trading relationship with the remaining 27 member states. As of January 1, the UK will make its way in the world on its...
Lately, ordinary citizens, voters and taxpayers are beginning to worry about something that usually only ‘dismal scientists’, i.e., economists, care about: our alarming federal and provincial deficits and exploding national debt. While putting an economy into...
The Fair Practices Office for Worksafe BC receives 2,000 complaints each year. Retired labour lawyer Janet Patterson has shown the crown corporation how to lower that number significantly. After extensive consultations, she submitted her report in October 2019 with...
Women across the world know a silent truth: they are bearing the brunt of the pandemic’s economic fallout. These hectic months have placed an extra burden on their shoulders, and persistent lockdowns threaten to erase decades of gender equality earned in the labour...
The United Nations (UN) was born out of an idea for creating a society of nations, a global community, a brotherhood of nations built on a set of higher ideals. These ideals would give rise to a global village with accountability to each other, including social...
The Alberta premier’s plan to treat the coronavirus as endemic was the way out of the COVID crisis. That he is once again adopting restrictions for the province, for the fourth time, does not negate the endemic approach. But his declaration, paraphrasing President...
Listen to Bryan Schwartz speak on CBC radio about equalization and national economics. (7 minutes)
Listen to Hugh McFadyen speak at Breakfast on the Frontier here. (60 minutes)
Listen to Michael Silver speak about the evolution of the manufacturing industry here. (33 minutes)
Listen to Charlie Mayer speak at Breakfast on the Frontier here. (70 minutes)
Listen to David Yager speak about changing energy industry here. (54 minutes)
Liberal MP and Leadership Candidate Scott Brison discusses policy reforms to build a 21st century economy.
Watch Lunch on the Frontier with Bryan Schwartz here. (38 minutes)
Are Manitoba Hydro’s prices too low? A perspective from the head of the University of Winnipeg’s economics department.
During the 1980’s there were one or two years in which we actually had zero growth. In recent years in the 1990’s we have had 8 or 9% growth. So this is a massive turn-around.