Comment & Insight
The brokerage business’s remarkable resilience
Editorial
- By: IE Staff
- April 27, 2018 April 25, 2018
- 00:01
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Comment & Insight
Is Big Tech getting too big?
Technology giants such as Facebook and Alphabet dominate the economy. Can limits be placed on that dominance?
- By: Gord McIntosh
- April 27, 2018 April 25, 2018
- 00:00
Comment & Insight
One out of three is not good
Editorial
- By: IE Staff
- March 29, 2018 March 29, 2018
- 00:01
Comment & Insight
The budget deserves a closer look
Not long ago, journalists would spend a week or more parsing and analyzing the budget document
- By: Gord McIntosh
- March 29, 2018 March 29, 2018
- 00:00
Comment & Insight
Time to follow the U.S. on seniors’ issues
Editorial
- By: IE Staff
- March 1, 2018 March 2, 2018
- 00:04
Comment & Insight
Whither the Opposition?
The Liberals survived a terrible autumn in Parliament. Yet, they appear entrenched in power
- By: Gord McIntosh
- March 1, 2018 March 2, 2018
- 00:03
Comment & Insight
The irony of pipeline politics
Killing the Trans Mountain pipeline puts climate change strategy in jeopardy
- By: Michael Ganley
- March 1, 2018 March 2, 2018
- 00:02
Comment & Insight
Between a dam and a hard place
After approving a controversial capital project, B.C.'s government must face the wrath of environmentalists
- By: Brian Lewis
- March 1, 2018 March 2, 2018
- 00:01
Comment & Insight
Here we go again
Every five or so years, someone pitches the idea that Halifax needs a professional sports team
- By: Donalee Moulton
- March 1, 2018 March 2, 2018
- 00:00
Comment & Insight
Trudeau’s cockiness on NAFTA
Would the Americans be willing to ease up on their NAFTA demands if Canada were to back off on its WTO complaint?
- By: Gord McIntosh
- February 15, 2018 March 2, 2018
- 00:01
Inviting damage to investor confidence
Editorial
- By: IE Staff
- September 21, 2018 September 21, 2018
- 00:01
USMCA won’t end trade spats
The negotiations that wound up on Sept. 30 are likely to be only the first in a litany of disputes with Washington
- By: Gord McIntosh
- October 12, 2018 October 11, 2018
- 00:00
Harsh lessons for Trudeau
The Trans Mountain Pipeline decision and NAFTA negotiations may lead to major policy changes for Canada
- By: Gord McIntosh
- September 21, 2018 September 21, 2018
- 00:00
Populism is nothing new
Political branding - as practised by Donald Trump, Viktor Orbán and Doug Ford - is harming democracy
- By: Gord McIntosh
- August 24, 2018 August 22, 2018
- 00:00
Clients have spoken — and regulators should listen
IFIC’s recent Canadian Mutual Fund Investor Survey found that investors are very satisfied with their advisors and prefer to pay their fees indirectly
- By: Blake Goldring
- October 18, 2018 October 18, 2018
- 14:30
Bias on embedded commissions ban?
Investment industry players that favour a ban are either far removed from the average investor or could benefit directly from it
- By: Mark Kent
- July 17, 2017 January 18, 2018
- 13:40
IIROC firms already meet the best interests of their clients
Regulators’ proposals to impose a best interests standard would be “duplicative and confusing”
- By: Ian Russell
- February 28, 2017 January 16, 2018
- 17:00
NAFTA 2.0 won’t end trade disputes
Protectionism in the U.S. may not be as severe as it was in 1930, but it remains very much a part of that country's DNA