Commentary

Canada has more than a labour shortage challenge. The deeper issue facing the country’s employers, industries and, ultimately, its economy is a skills shortage.

Religion, and the way we interpret its precepts and teachings, has rarely been a prominent fixture in Canadian politics. In the United States, however, the situation is completely different.

The business community’s knock on NDP governments – and on ours provincially – is that they know squat about an economy and that it’s only a matter of time before it’s regularly apparent. The last week has been fuel for the critique.

Survey suggests lasting harm from debunked and retracted study in 1990s

The pandemic shattered many longstanding assumptions about what is possible, particularly from governments.

If the COVID-19 pandemic has really turned into a COVID-19 endemic and we are ready to learn to live with the coronavirus and the new pandemic economy, are we really ready to live with a COVID excuse endemic? That tolerance for subpar performance wou

China’s economy got off to a good start in 2021. China’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 8.1 per cent year on year. Total retail sales of consumer goods grew by 12.

Political observers were caught off guard last week when the Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party (NDP) unveiled a “supply and confidence agreement” that practically guarantees that there is no federal election in Canada until 2025.

Let my bias show: One of the jewels of Vancouver was lost to us in the pandemic, possibly lost to us permanently. Thankfully we get it back, and quite a bit more, in April.

As outstanding COVID-19 restrictions and mandates are lifted across Canada, residents of the country are starting to get ready for activities that they pursued only sparingly over the past two years.