Opinion

February 22, 2012

Opinion: Canada lags badly in innovation and productivity, writes Kevin Lynch

At the recent Davos World Economic Forum gathering, the Harvard Business School trumpeted a multi-year project on U.S. competitiveness, itself…
February 16, 2012

Opinion: Skilled trades deficit colliding with energy boom

For many years we have been told Canada faces an acute “skills mismatch,” where the economy has lots of great…
February 15, 2012

Issues: Productivity and Innovation

Productivity growth is essential to maintaining, or increasing, our standard of living. It is especially critical at the present time,…
January 20, 2012

Capacity crowd attend income inequality panel

Ottawa  – The  gap between rich and poor is at a record high, according to a new global economic study,…
January 19, 2012

Income inequality: a top global risk

Inequality of income is one of the hot button issues of our time. 2011 saw the rise of the Occupy…
January 10, 2012

Corak: Is the U.S. Still a ‘Land of Opportunity’?

BY: Miles Corak, University of Ottawa. Corak examines economic mobility in the US vs. Canada. Canada is still more economically…
December 27, 2011

Obama’s courting the youth vote with Keystone politics

BY: Eugene Lang, Canada 2020. President Barack Obama has punted a controversial decision on the Keystone XL pipeline — which…
November 25, 2011

Needed: Innovative Thinking on Innovation

The facts about poor Canadian productivity and innovation performance are easy to rhyme off. The discussion about how to address…
November 24, 2011

Five challenges we can’t ignore

BY: Diana Carney and Eugene Lang, Canada 2020. Ottawa – Today, Canada faces challenges and opportunities that are quite unprecedented…
March 29, 2011

Demont: Politics as Analogy

The first major promise of the 2011 federal campaign is one that no one really believes will come to fruition…
February 25, 2011

Demont: Democracy‘s Unintended Outcome

As the Arab world explodes in a paroxysm of protest and demands for democracy, distant history holds a warning as…
November 16, 2010

Eric Morse: ‘Who Watches the Watchdog?’ – Journalism and Foreign Policy

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…
September 30, 2010

DeMont: Politics of Simple Things

by Phil DeMont Even as the controversy rages over the federal government’s plan to kill off the mandatory long-form census,…
July 16, 2010

Debating in the Dark Ages

by Phil DeMont Public policy thrives upon pointed discussion and different opinions. However, every once in a while comes a…
June 1, 2010

David Cameron and the end of ideology

by Phil DeMont As David Cameron settles in as the United Kingdom’s new Prime Minster, he heads up a British…
June 22, 2009

Buy-buy Nortel, Bye-bye Canadian R&D spending

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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