Why Canadians are Stuck Waiting for the Bus with Nate Wallace
Investment in public transit has weakened, ridership has stalled as commuters are forced to drive, and the economy loses billions in lost productivity.
Public Investment
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Profit, not price, is why we keep burning fossil fuels
Brett Christophers’ book, ‘The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet,’ argues why the energy transition can’t be left to the market.
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A Common Platform for a Green Industrial Transformation
Across Canada, public investments totalling $188 billion over five years in these key priorities are urgently needed to drive a prosperous green transformation.
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Tax credits are not the way to boost innovation
It is, to say the least, rare for a business-dominated advisory panel to the Harper government to suggest that targeted spending programs are more efficient than tax cuts.
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Innovation: re-thinking the role of the state
In Canada’s particular context, left economic thinkers surmised that the role of the state is not only to foster equality, but to also help set the direction of the economy since domestic entrepreneurs were proving inadequate to the task.
