How Maria Elena Durazo changed the game in L.A.
Maria Elena Durazo will be sharing lessons and inspiration from her decades-long work to transform LA at Progress Summit 2017. Early Bird tickets are available until February 28, 2017....
Governments and Charities
Every year, just before Christmas, the Fraser Institute publish a “Generosity Index” which compares charitable giving in Canada and the United States. The widely-publicized message in 2016 was that...
Border challenges set to test Canada's welcoming self-image
Canadians are on the brink of a difficult test: are we prepared to live up to our stated commitments to tolerance, by welcoming immigrants and refugees who fear living in...
Does Trump signal the end for free-market capitalism?
Donald Trump’s ascension to the US presidency is being hailed by some as the end of globalization as we have come to know it in the last four decades. Others...
Affordable housing increasingly illusory in Vancouver, Toronto
Experts have roundly criticized BC Premier Christy Clark’s recent home ownership grant policy. A key part of the negative reaction has been based on fears that interest free grants will...
Trudeau’s broken promise on electoral reform betrays the public interest
Through my many decades of involvement in politics and public life, I’ve lived through a number of disappointments and broken promises. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to abandon his commitment...
Taxing dividends: the case for reform
Special tax treatment of dividend income costs a lot in terms of foregone government revenues, mainly benefits the very affluent, and thus merits serious re-consideration as part of the federal...
Trump, Canada and life after NAFTA
The election of President Trump and the potential imposition of border taxes and other protectionist measures is clearly of great concern to Canadian exporters, the workers they employ and the...
On Donald Trump and the fight for progress in Canada
On January 20, a dangerous con-man took high office in the United States. Openly trading in hate while ushering in more inequality will be Donald Trump’s MO for the...
Big cities much more unequal than Canada as a whole
It is no secret that big, global cities like London and New York are highly unequal and display harsh extremes of wealth and poverty. This is increasingly true of Canada's...
