But there’s a fear the market could see a bubble just like cannabis did Cannabis is only on the cusp of many investors’ comfort zones, but the family offices and high-net-worth individuals hungry for early stage, edgy investments have already moved on to psychedelics. «People see this potentially as a […]
Canadians’ average grocery bill is forecast to rise as much as 5 per cent in 2021, as COVID-19 takes a toll on supply chains, according to Canada’s Food Price Report, an annual forecast published by Dalhousie University and the University of Guelph. Based on a family of four, average food […]
Canadians have likely spent more time in grocery stores than any other place this year (apart from their homes) as they collected ingredients to idle away the lockdown hours making an assortment of breads, octopus and yet another roast. And now they can expect to spend even more money at […]
Note to Trudeau government: In the middle of a deep recession, we need a low-cost carbon plan that will have the least impact on growth The Trudeau government on Thursday announced legislation, Bill C-12, committing Canada to “binding” five-year targets to achieve net zero GHG emissions by 2050. As the […]
Trudeau’s net-zero carbon legislation sounds like Klaus Schwab’s global plan to remake the world economy Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lit up some of the highly flammable sections of social media the other day after excerpts from a two-month-old virtual speech he gave to a United Nations’ event made their way onto […]
The danger is they will end up being used in aid of green protectionism that will shrink global trade So far the idea of a carbon tariff has received very little attention in this or many other countries. That may change soon. Joe Biden’s platform includes the following: “As the U.S. […]
When do the costs exceed the benefits? The risks of death may in fact be nowhere near as great as once estimated by scientists When the history of the COVID-19 pandemic is written, what will it say about the vast army of professional economists — in banks, academia, consultancies, think-tanks — along with science […]
Opinion: Butts was once keen to take credit for ‘all of the province’s significant environmental initiatives’ — back before those initiatives became politically toxic In Gerald Butts’ much-discussed resignation letter last week, the former principal secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took responsibility — sort of — for the ever-growing crisis enveloping the federal Liberal government. […]
Kevin Carmichael: Star-crossed bank will only succeed if investors are confident it operates free of political interference Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the daily face of his government’s response to the COVID crisis, wasn’t going to missa $10-billion announcement. So there he was on Oct. 1, big-footing his infrastructure minister, Catherine […]
The recession, the economic equivalent of a thermonuclear device, affected men and women almost equally Armine Yalnizyan of the Atkinson Foundation has been superspreading the idea that the distinctive feature of the 2020 recession is its disproportionate impact on women. She maintains that, with its devastating hit on service industries, the […]