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Agri-food is big business in Alberta. Alberta contributes 16 percent of Canada’s primary agriculture GDP, and in 2019, Alberta’s primary agriculture sector contributed $14 billion in farm cash receipts and…
Read MoreAround 40 percent of the Canadian workforce has the potential to work entirely from home. The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic confirmed this when roughly that proportion of workers set…
Read MoreWhen it comes to labour issues of the past several decades, policymakers have tended to focus on unemployment issues. Thanks to the post-war baby boom leading to surging population numbers,…
Read MorePrior to July 2014, all qualified bidders could bid on public work projects in the Region of Waterloo in Ontario. After July 2014, however, legislation passed by the provincial government…
Read MoreCanada has a housing problem. And it is not going away anytime soon. As The Hub has highlighted, a structural housing shortage, temporarily exacerbated by pandemic-related impacts linked to record-low…
Read MoreCanada’s model for regulating and negotiating drug prices is in a state of uncertainty as drug price controls being introduced by the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board are scheduled to…
Read MoreUtilizing renewable energy may be a necessity moving forward, but there are numerous complications and tradeoffs that must be acknowledged as well if we are to make informed decisions and…
Read MoreOne of the most immediately pressing issues in our society is the proliferation of accurate and accessible information, especially around science and health. Conversely, misinformation is able to spread further…
Read MoreAlberta has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. But in a new post from the Montreal Economic Institute, Krystle Wittevrongel highlights some good news: the province is forecast to…
Read MoreBy certain standards, as a whole we in the Western world are materially better off than we have ever been. Indeed, these gains have extended across the world as well,…
Read MoreThe federal government has set some ambitious emissions targets. Their climate plan includes a reduction of 213 megatonnes (MT) of greenhouse gas emissions, or 30 percent of 2018 nationwide GHGs,…
Read MoreOntario’s economic situation is not so great. And, according to this new post by the Fraser Institute, this assessment is only reinforced when you take a look at the surrounding…
Read MoreThe pandemic, understandably, has forced us to focus on the immediate and short term. But we should not lose sight of the long-term either, especially as the world begins to…
Read MoreThe final communique from this year’s G7 summit included language about getting countries to play by World Trade Organization rules, about greater regulations on state-owned enterprises, about controlling trade-distorting subsidies, and…
Read MoreIn a world of increasing digitization and distributed workforces, investing in the intangible assets that underpin the knowledge or learning economy, such as intellectual property (IP), research, technology and software,…
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