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Danielle Goldfarb Associate Director Global Commerce Centre

With the UN climate change convention just over a week away, the environment file is heating up. Last week, Environment Minister Jim Prentice announced that Ottawa would delay announcing its climate change policy until US and global approaches are clearer.

If Canada is ...

Danielle Goldfarb Associate Director International Trade and Investment Centre

La plupart des Canadiens boivent du lait, mais ils sont une majorité à ignorer combien de manœuvres élaborées ont été nécessaires pour que ce verre de lait arrive sur leur table.

Je ne parle pas de la traite des vaches, travail ...

Danielle Goldfarb Associate Director Global Commerce Centre

Most Canadians drink milk. Most of us, however, are unaware of the elaborate machinations involved in getting that glass of milk on our tables.

I am not talking about milking cows, which is surely hard work. What I am referring to is ...

Michael Burt Director Canadian Industrial Outlook

Consensus is building that the global recession is done. Many emerging markets are seeing their growth rates return to a robust pace, Europe and the U.S. have both reported economic growth in their most recent quarterly releases, and Canada is expected to join ...

Glen Hodgson Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist Forecasting and Analysis

As we begin to emerge from the first synchronized global recession in half a century, a serious medium-term challenge facing governments in almost every nation will be to get fiscal deficits and government debt under control. Allowing a ...

Pedro Antunes Director Forecasting and Analysis

Canadian business leaders have long been accused of missing the boat on China. While the Chinese have had phenomenal success in boosting their exports to Canada and the world, we have been largely unsuccessful at tapping into the huge growth and potential that ...

Kip Beckman Principal Research Associate, Economic Services

The American dream of owning your own home has turned into the all-American nightmare. With millions of houses mired in foreclosure and no end in sight, people have been forced to rent, move into trailer parks or, the worst fate of all, ...