Insights
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Continuous improvement isn’t enough: Industry 4.0 sets a new bar
Technology allows manufacturers to consider their processes differently, and drastically improve upon them.
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Carbon pricing a triumph of ideology over reason
There couldn’t be a worse time to hand another competitive advantage to the Americans.
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Living in interesting times
Now that Donald Trump is officially ensconced in the Oval Office, we can turn our attention to how he intends to disrupt North American trade, and the ramifications for Canadian manufacturers in the automotive sector. Although Canada’s position in global…
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Making America “great again” includes Canada
The US and us. It’s our time. Because it’s 2017.
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Why the Alberta Advantage was flawed from the beginning
Economic strategy needs to focus on helping all Albertans over the long term.
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Welcome to Trump World
The president-elect’s unlikely victorious bid for the White House points to a likely disruption of global trade and international relationships. That includes Canada.
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IoT in action…at a music festival
This was the Internet of Things, in full force, in the least likely of places…
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Beware of trade xenophobia
What’s going on out there with global trade? Seems some parts of the developed world are becoming insular and a bit crazy. Britain goes Brexit, thus tossing a spanner into the workings of the CETA deal and setting itself up…
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Prepare to be disrupted
Developed economies are taking climate change a lot more seriously, which is certainly the case in Canada where a change of government at the federal level combined with provincial efforts are altering the international perception that we are climate change…
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Heading down the debt path again
The federal government’s planned $30-billion budget deficit, to be followed by three more deficits totalling $113 billion, brings to mind former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s observation: “It’s not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that…
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Liberals have an opportunity to simplify Canada’s tax system
Eliminating a large number of ineffective tax expenditures could reduce personal income tax rates.
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Time is money
5 steps to help you rock any meeting.
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Embrace your inner “Musk”
Elon Musk understands that an idea is just that, until it’s made into something.
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Setting a price for carbon
Despite the collegial, sunny vibe, Trudeau and the premiers are not necessarily on the same page.
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Commodity slump weighing on global economies
Economic growth projections for most emerging markets have been revised down for the next two years.
