Thursday, December 26, 2024

The Role of Clean Fuels in an Energy Transition

 From a wide variety of energy policy perspectives – be it reliability, affordability, security or redundancy – we will continue to need not just electrons but also molecules to […]

Exploring Innovation in Canadian Health Care

 Canadian health care is in crisis. Wait-lists grow, while Canadians cannot find a family doctor or access much-needed medicines and treatments. Governments have poured billions into the system as […]

First Nations Wealth Production and Management

 Indigenous groups nationwide are eager to produce own-source revenues and to reduce their reliance on fiscal transfers from the Government of Canada. Indigenous economic development corporations are the primary […]

Converting Opportunity into Indigenous Prosperity

 This webinar features Sandy Sanderson, President of the Northeastern Alberta Business Association and a northern entrepreneur. The discussion will review the current state of Indigenous engagement in the oil […]

The Transformation of the Indigenous Economy

 Karen Restoule, a leading commentator on the Indigenous economy and a commercial professional based in Central Canada, will offer her views on the recent accomplishments of Indigenous business peoples […]

Internal barriers to trade: Protecting industry or preventing growth?

 Trade barriers are to be expected between countries. But when similar roadblocks are erected between provinces, they can send our economy down a bumpy road – costing Canadian consumers and businesses alike. In this webinar, we explore internal trade barriers in trucking as a case study to shed light on the broader consequences of […]

October 7th, One year later: The Promised Land Project

 The world awoke to shock and horror on October 7th, 2023. What has become clear in the year since Hamas's barbaric attack on Israel is that the status quo of the past few decades is no longer sustainable. We have entered a new era of geopolitical relations in the Middle east, ethnic tension, and […]

Competition in the financial sector

 How can financial sector competition help in a cost-of-living crisis? At a time when Canadians are struggling to make ends meet, a holistic approach to making every sector cheaper is the best approach. Changes to financial sector policy that introduce more competition will incentivize financial service providers to offer lower fees to customers, as […]

Leading the Digital Revolution: Female Indigenous Leaders and the Canadian North

 Northern and Indigenous communities have been seriously disadvantaged by being on the wrong side of the digital divide. While cities and prosperous rural areas benefit from inexpensive high-speed Internet services, remote and northern settlements have suffered from being cut off from many of the benefits of the digital revolution. Major changes are coming. Tiffany […]

Confronting censorship & defending free speech

 It’s a fundamental liberty of all Canadians – the right to freedom of expression. But free speech today is under attack by a new form of censorship. Professional associations are increasingly attempting to silence members who dare to speak freely against ideologically driven political and social agendas. Many professionals are engaging in self-censorship out […]