July 12, 2008
Signs of aging are a sure way of pushing people into denial mode. But the release of new census data has encouraged Canada to look at itself in the mirror. Canadian society is getting older—there is no denial. What’s unclear—even with bifocals—are the implications of such change.
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May 6, 2008
BMO recently released a study where the bank expressed surprise regarding the amount of economic optimism among Canada’s small business owners (April 9 press release). Based on the results of a poll of business owners, the bank also suggests that small firms’ contingency planning is insufficient to deal with an economic downturn. Contingency planning is indeed an important business process, and on
ContinueFebruary 15, 2008
Any small business owner reading Jack Mintz’s National Post column (Feb 8, 2008) would be taken aback by his assertion that corporate tax policy is rewarding them for stagnation. Small businesses are Canada’s chief source of dynamic entrepreneurial activity. Tax policies for small and mid-sized businesses have created an economy that routinely outperforms those in the developed world in terms of G
ContinueFebruary 27, 2007
City governments want to pinch a pennies, but not in the way we hoped. Canada’s big city mayors, led by David Miller of Toronto suggest that it is a matter of “inarguable” fairness that municipalities deserve a one cent share of the GST. They say cities are the engines of the economy, but severely underfunded and in need of cash transfers from the federal and provincial governments. The GST propos
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