Recently, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced several short-term initiatives related to tax policy. Most notably, the package includes a two-month GST holiday on certain items and a one-time $250 cheque that will be sent to all Canadians with incomes under $150,000.

President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all imported products coming into the United States from Mexico and Canada has justifiably alarmed Canadian policymakers and business leaders.

Across Canada, government employment has exploded, dwarfing job-growth numbers in the private sector and raising serious questions about the affordability of this government hiring spree.

As stagnant economic growth and declining living standards become increasingly salient, it’s clear that governments across the country must change their approach.

Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner on Wednesday officially appointed a new board of directors for AIMCo, the $169 billion asset manager, which handles the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund and several public pensions including the Alberta Teachers’ Retirement Fund.

The golden rule of a fair tax system is that those in equal situations pay equal taxes. That’s not the way it works in Nova Scotia.

According to a recent study, Canada ranked third-last among 30 high-income OECD countries for growth in per-person GDP, a common measure of prosperity and living standards, from 2014 to 2022 (the latest year of available data).

According to the recent mid-year update tabled Thursday, the Smith government projects a $4.6 billion surplus in 2024/25, up from the $2.9 billion surplus projected just a few months ago. Despite the good news, Premier Smith must reduce spending to avoid budget deficits.

Every year, the United Nations convenes a Conferences of Parties to set the world’s agenda to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

At the Conference of the Parties (COP29) in Azerbaijan, António Guterres, the United Nations Secretary-General, last week called for a global net-zero carbon footprint by 2050, which requires a “fossil fuel phase-out” and “deep decarbonization across the entire value chain.”

Oxford economics professor Daniel Susskind’s recent book, Growth: A History and A Reckoning, underscores both the historical novelty of the concept of sustained economic growth and why democratic capitalism needs it to continue to be a priority.

The holidays are around the corner, which usually means that young people can look forward to presents from their elders.

According to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Germany’s climate policies—chasing after “net-zero” greenhouse gas emissions, aggressive electric vehicle sales mandates, and moving electricity production away from fossil fuels to renewable sources such as wind and solar—has imperiled Germany’s massive auto-sector, the central pillar of its economy.

To much fanfare, President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all imported products coming into the United States from Canada.