Columnists
As U.S. protectionism surges, Canada implores Washington: But we're friends!
Duncan Cameron | Higher American interest rates will push the U.S. dollar up and lower the already weak Canadian dollar further. Expect the Trump administration to target Canada for currency manipulation.
Columnists
Canada's highly lopsided economic relationship with China
Jim Stanford | Prime Minister Trudeau leads a big entourage to China this week, in hopes of expanding Canada's foothold in that huge economy. Here are the main features of our current, unbalanced relationship.
Columnists
How value-added exports are boosting Canada's economy
Jim Stanford | There is evidence that the economy is starting to pivot away from over-reliance on energy extraction. Instead, our high-technology industrial base is starting to flex its muscles once again.
Blog
Photo: Peg Hunter/flickr
The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement: A dead end for jobs
John Jacobs | The TPP will further remove governments' ability to take initiatives that might foster a more diverse and job-intensive economy. We're going back to the future, as hewers of wood and drawers of water.
Columnists
Canada's auto strategy: Grovelling for crumbs in NAFTA's grim reality
Jim Stanford | Export Development Canada claims it will help us capture a few more crumbs from the auto industry's southward migration. Its convoluted logic highlights the contradictions of Canada's whole approach.
Podcast
Recent accord between U.S. and Cuba stops short of significant change
Redeye Collective | Americans able to visit more freely, the Cuban 5 released and essential construction materials allowed into the country. But what else was in the agreement between Obama and Castro?
Columnists
Leaking jobs in Canada through our foreign accounts deficits
Duncan Cameron | Canadians looking for a job are being hurt by recent trends in foreign trade. An outflow of spending from Canada indicates weakness in the ability of the economy to generate jobs.
Columnists
The loonie returns to earth after a long flight of fancy
Jim Stanford | The present downturn of the Canadian dollar is a welcome, but overdue, reversal to a decade-long, pointless and destructive financial detour for our currency.
Blog
Photo: Mel Watkins
The Staple Theory at 50: Staples theory on the international stage
Gerry Helleiner | The global importance of staple theory, Gerry Helleiner notes, constitutes a kind of Canadian "staple export" -- but of a better kind than we usually supply to the world.
Columnists
Industrial policy, manufacturing employment and the loonie
Jim Stanford | The Institute for Research on Public Policy has published a very interesting overview study on the resuscitation of "industrial policy" in economic policy circles.
News
Jeff Scott, president and CEO of Fraser Surrey Docks. (Photo: David P. Ball)
'Make this an election issue': Growth of coal exports alarms environmentalists in B.C.
David P. Ball | Despite garnering little attention in the B.C. election campaign, the sudden swell of B.C.'s role in the global coal trade has become a burning issue for environmental advocates.
Blog
Jan Slomp, NFU Alberta
Canadian meat producers don't need CETA, aren't filling existing export quotas: NFU
Stuart Trew | Canadian beef exporters are using less than half of their tariff-free quota access to the European market and pork exporters come nowhere close to meeting their allowances, says the NFU.