Commentary

Instituting a guaranteed minimum income program in Canada is guaranteed to be controversial and complicated.

For some people, the COVID-19 pandemic might be regarded as the worst time to discuss our reliance on plastics. We have seen discarded gloves during our “socially distanced” walks.

David McWilliams is in his Dublin basement, in full-on lockdown, lamenting how in two weeks Ireland has gone from the best to the worst European country in the pandemic. “I think the moral of the story there is: Don’t let the Irish out for Christmas.

The only consistency that the year 2020 brought to our lives is that we all had plans that went astray in the pandemic.

The advent of 2021 is a prognosticator’s nightmare after the year we’ve had. There is ample room for embarrassment given that, however predictable some aspects of the pandemic may now seem in retrospect, nobody saw it coming.

Multiple Listing Service (MLS) sales are holding strong heading into 2021, propelled by exceptionally low mortgage rates and a desire for larger properties and recreational homes fuelled by the pandemic, high savings rates and stable employment for m

Twice a year, Research Co. and Glacier Media ask Canadians about their perceptions of other countries.

Many entrepreneurs, at the turn of each new year, like to take stock of where their business is at. For me, COVID-19 and 2020’s economic fallout brings even more opportunities to question the way things are done – and contemplate radical change.

Is 2021 going to be a year when we become aware of our compulsion for electronic escapes? Social media companies know what holds us captive for hours, what we are most scared about.

Now more than ever, with the national debt heading towards $400 billion, the emerging narrative of the $100 billion annual Indigenous economic target is coming into sharp focus.