Featured Perspectives on Business
SYLVAN CHARLEBOIS: Canadian icon poutine celebrates 60 years of global delight
Poutine, that deliciously indulgent combination of cheese curds, fries, and gravy, is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. While many attribute its creation to Jean-Claude Roy in Drummondville, Que. in 1964, the true origins of poutine can be ...
Howard Levitt: How to navigate the murky rules of office relationships
Howard Levitt and Lavan Narenthiran Before internet dating took off, more people met their spouses in the workplace than anywhere else. Given how much time we spend in the office, that is hardly surprising. Employers benefit when staff ...
Bank of Canada says the country faces a productivity 'emergency'
Canada must tackle weak productivity to inoculate the economy against factors that will drive future inflation, such as the pullback from globalization, said Carolyn Rogers, senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada . “An economy with low ...
Pay transparency on the rise in Canada, but exact salaries harder to find
People looking for new work are starting to see more information about the pay in job postings, but progress remains slow in certain sectors and exact salary figures are still few and far between. Listings that offer some kind of pay transparency ...
Nova Scotia craft beer business staggering a bit
A veteran of the craft beer business is concerned that a spate of recent closures in the sector might be a harbinger what’s on the horizon. “Last year there were four operations that either sold or closed, or restructured and brought in financing to ...
Howard Levitt: Punitive damages in employment cases take a new spin
By Howard Levitt “Employees depend on employment not only for their financial survival but also for a sense of self-worth. Conduct of the employer that negatively impacts on those two essential elements warrants condemnation and ...
Posthaste: Who says cities are dead? These four are driving Canada's economy
Canada’s big cities took the toughest knocks during the pandemic, as families fled to the suburbs and beyond and office buildings emptied out. Yet despite concerns about “big city cores getting hollowed out,” the reality is they still drive Canada’s ...
5 tax changes to watch out for in the upcoming federal budget
What could be in the federal budget that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is delivering on April 16? It’s really anyone’s guess, but some insights can be gleaned from the government’s recent pre-budget report , as well as ...
Bank of Canada policymakers at odds over when they can justify interest rate cut
Bank of Canada policymakers are divided on when there will be enough evidence that the right conditions are in place to cut interest rates , though they agree it should be sometime this year, according to a summary of deliberations that led to a ...
'Unambiguously good news': What economists say about February's inflation surprise
Canada’s inflation numbers for February flummoxed analysts again, slowing to 2.8 per cent year over year instead of rebounding to 3.1 per cent as most analysts predicted. In January, the headline number for the consumer price index (CPI) came in ...