Opinion

The only thing clear about the legalization of cannabis is there are more questions than answers. Since the Trudeau Liberals foisted responsibility of delivering the stash, provincial governments have been hunting for a flashlight to see through the policy smoke.

It’s not often you run into someone who began their career when they were six years old.

It’s been a big week for small business in Canada. Small Business Week and Small Business Saturday roll around once a year, but it’s rare to have the occasion festooned with quite so much high level attention.

Gerry Pond has over 45 years of in-depth experience in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. He was CEO of NBTel and president of its successor, Aliant Telecom before he moved into the tech startup field.

Here is the latest argument being made to promote the $15 minimum wage:

Employers should simply pay their employees more. This will help solve our economic problems. With a $15 minimum wage, there will more money being spent. People on lower incomes will be spending all this money because they can’t afford to save it. Consequently, people will sell more goods and services and we will all prosper.

Shrinking the Size of Government is No Longer an Option – It’s Required

Atlantic Canada is facing serious challenges and we no longer have the option of kicking the can down the road. The demographic tsunami is upon us, and there is a looming financial crisis in that wave.

If anyone is looking for a clue as to why the federal government is imposing unfair tax changes on small business, you need to look no further than the author of the paper that informed the Liberal’s 2015 election rhetoric, retired bureaucrat Michael Wolfson.

Trudeau minister Scott Brison delivered this speech at Halifax Port Days this week. Here are his remarks:

When I last spoke here one year ago, we were all still digesting the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom … which at that point was still the most surprising vote of 2016!

I first met Michael DeVenney after he reached out to me to discuss an initiative he is working on called The Mindset Project.

The work is about the intersection of entrepreneurship and mental health and he thought it would be of interest for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.