Columnists
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. |