In the year 2007 Stelco was purchased by the U.S. Steel Corporation for $1.1 billion. At that time…
Canada’s Business
Mixed results
Over the past year following the onset of the recession, investors and speculators have scrambled…
Unmanageable
So far banks in Canada have been well managed and have avoided getting into trouble. However, they…
Going nowhere
While this column is about Canada’s Business, what goes on south of the border is of…
Meeting mania
Nowadays businesses are beset by a meeting mania. Getting together with colleagues seems to be a…
A new trend
Up until recently we felt that the workforce appeared to be so young, notably to the police and…
Endemic problems
As if the financial community were not already beset with endemic, chronic problems, now it must…
The collapse of service
Shopping has undergone momentous change. For instance, formerly grocery stores were a small outlet…
Still buoyant
Central to the outlook for the Canadian economy is our export trade. That accounts for just over 30…
Delusional thinking
In this era we have been mesmerized by delusional “thinking” – namely that taking…
Difficult choices
Investors nowadays are very confused, much more than at any recent time. ‘Group think’…
Getting older
Overlooked as a reason for our sluggish economic growth and price weakness is the ageing of our…
Room to manoeuvre
In response to the financial crisis of the previous decade, policy-makers decided to take all…
A nightmare?
Every now and then some commentators come up with a nightmare scenario where technology displaces a…
Worthwhile?
A multitude of youngsters will attend a post-secondary institution this autumn to pursue a course…