If Canada wants to build roads and bridges, it needs infrastructure banks Mark Twain famously said, “Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” The same could be said about infrastructure in Canada today: “Everyone – on all points on the political spectrum – talks about infrastructure but nobody suggests serious, coherent…
Canada a global pace-setter in female entrepreneurship, but barriers still persist With International Women’s day just behind us, it’s never too late to celebrate how far we’ve come in business — or to take a closer look at what might be getting in the way. When it comes to women in business, Canada is a global…
Decision time: Canada needs new fighter jets – now Canada’s CF-18 fighter jets are due to retire in 2020. They need to be replaced, but no fully operational F-35s will be available by that date. Stephen Harper has a decision to make: buy another model of fighter jet, or face a dangerous capability gap. He…
Canada’s FINTRAC Imposes Fine on Questrade for Serious AML Breaches Canada’s financial watchdog that supervises money laundering and terrorist financing has issued details of violations committed by a Canadian regulated broker dealer. Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), a government organization that reports to Canada’s ministry of finance, has found Questrade, a…
Russia Chooses ‘Soft’ Approach To The Arctic – Analysis by Igor Alexeev, posted on the Eurasia Review Recent initiatives in the Arctic Council show that Arctic nations have chosen business as a universal language of rapprochement. Russia’s limited military presence should be viewed as an opportunity to build a safer economic environment without prejudicing the…
Union ready to enlist PQ help to stop inquiry /The Canadian Press, Montreal, Jan. 21, 2014/ – A wiretap conversation heard at Quebec’s corruption inquiry suggests the province’s largest labour federation was ready to enlist the help of friends at the Parti Quebecois to make sure such a probe didn’t take place. The wiretap is…
Regulators in Canada are poised to open a formal investigation into whether Google is abusing its dominance /The Associated Press, Dec. 17, 2013/ – Canada’s Competition Bureau indicated in a filing made in an Ottawa federal court last week that it suspects that Google Inc. has been breaking the country’s antitrust laws. Regulators are seeking a…
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