This Nobel Prize winner thinks open source software is Canada’s ticket to growth
It’s a phenomenon that British author Matt Ridley described as “ideas having sex with each other.”
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It’s a phenomenon that British author Matt Ridley described as “ideas having sex with each other.”
People make extraordinary claims for the economic benefits of having more graduates. The data simply does not show that.
Over the coming days, The Hub will publish mandate letters for the incoming cabinet ministers that set out a series of bold policy prescriptions.
Any hopes that China would become as lucrative a market as the United States with its own special relationship have been dashed by the hard lesson that China has no special relationships beyond those that serve China.
Infrastructure is one of those $100 words that can mean almost anything. The legendary American journalist Theodore White wrote that the word was meant “to conceal political explosives.” In fact,…
Nearly half of Canadians fear the government spent more money than was necessary to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, according to exclusive polling conducted for The Hub by Public Square Research and Maru/Blue.
No party platform or national leader has much of anything to say about the country’s pernicious, now decade-long acceleration towards a central bank coordinated economy and a low-growth economic order that will negatively impact everything from the social safety net to healthcare spending to our ability to fight climate change.
The pandemic offered Conservatives a chance to robustly defend the use of the institution of government to support families and communities. Instead, they fell back economic conservatism and populist tendencies — and found themselves well outside the mainstream.
In a post-pandemic world, the retail landscape is set to change for good. In order for Canada to benefit in the new tech-driven service economy, regulation must be shaped to avoid impairing innovation and limiting societal gains.
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