At the recent Davos World Economic Forum gathering, the Harvard Business School trumpeted a multi-year project on U.S. competitiveness, itself…
For many years we have been told Canada faces an acute “skills mismatch,” where the economy has lots of great…
Productivity growth is essential to maintaining, or increasing, our standard of living. It is especially critical at the present time,…
Ottawa – The gap between rich and poor is at a record high, according to a new global economic study,…
Inequality of income is one of the hot button issues of our time. 2011 saw the rise of the Occupy…
BY: Miles Corak, University of Ottawa. Corak examines economic mobility in the US vs. Canada. Canada is still more economically…
BY: Eugene Lang, Canada 2020. President Barack Obama has punted a controversial decision on the Keystone XL pipeline — which…
The facts about poor Canadian productivity and innovation performance are easy to rhyme off. The discussion about how to address…
BY: Diana Carney and Eugene Lang, Canada 2020. Ottawa – Today, Canada faces challenges and opportunities that are quite unprecedented…
The first major promise of the 2011 federal campaign is one that no one really believes will come to fruition…
As the Arab world explodes in a paroxysm of protest and demands for democracy, distant history holds a warning as…
Eric Morse, Vice-Chair, Strategic Studies Committee, Royal Canadian Military Institute (RCMI) delivered the following speech to the Queen’s University Foreign Policy Conference, November…
by Phil DeMont Even as the controversy rages over the federal government’s plan to kill off the mandatory long-form census,…
by Phil DeMont Public policy thrives upon pointed discussion and different opinions. However, every once in a while comes a…
by Phil DeMont As David Cameron settles in as the United Kingdom’s new Prime Minster, he heads up a British…
The international competition for R&D is extreme (source). China’s R&D spending has grown by 22 per cent a year since…
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