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OPINION: Why isn't the province doing more to help forestry sector?
Forestry is B.C.’s number one export industry. To sustain it, the provincial government needs to start paying more attention to the industry’s competitiveness.
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Sluggish investment threatens Canada’s prosperity
The only way to raise living standards and incomes for Canadians is by building a more productive economy. Yet it seems that most of the country’s political class would prefer to talk about almost anything else.
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By Jock Finlayson in Economy
OPINION: Why isn't the province doing more to help forestry sector?
OPINION: Why isn't the province doing more to help forestry…
By any measure, forestry remains a vital economic engine for B.C., even as parts of the industry…
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By Jock Finlayson in Economy
OPINION: Sluggish investment threatens Canada’s prosperity
OPINION: Sluggish investment threatens Canada’s prosperity
The recent federal election campaign saw much discussion about climate change, energy policy,…
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By Denise Mullen in Energy & Infrastructure
B.C. GHGs on the Rise – But Intensity is Getting Better
B.C. GHGs on the Rise – But Intensity is Getting Better
The good news is that, despite an increase in absolute emissions over the last several years, B.C. is making headway on reducing per capita emissions, relative to both population and GDP. B.C. today is less energy intensive on a per capita basis by 25% (i.e., total emissions/population) than it was…
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By David Williams in Economy
Canada's Love Affair with Leverage Since the Mid-2000s
Canada's Love Affair with Leverage Since the Mid-2000s
By any standard, Canada’s economy is highly leveraged. This predicament underscores the importance of belated actions by the federal government to tighten mortgage qualifying rules in 2017 and 2018. It also underscores the urgency of structural reforms to raise productivity growth and real wages to…
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