Gwyn Morgan
A roundup of irrational, damaging and downright dumb beliefs of 2017
For my first column of the new year, I’ve dipped into my collection of irrational, damaging or downright dumb happenings in 2017. GMO fears The year saw major breakthroughs in the use of...
Pipeline politics threaten to perpetuate oil and gas discount days
Donald Trump has said Canada’s energy exports are unfair to the U.S. He’s clearly unaware that we’ve given Americans the biggest trade gift ever to flow from one country to another because of our...
Fossil fuel fictions and other realities of living in a post-truth world
Despite the hundreds of billions of dollars invested, wind and solar provide only 1.5% of global power One of the unfortunate legacies of 2016 is the frequency of “post-truth” communications. The...
Public money generating a poor return from corporate Canada
Canadian governments regularly fund corporate ventures, but it is invariably money poorly spent. Bombardier Inc. received its first federal subsidy of $36.9 million back in 1966 from prime minister...
Media perspective missing on Conservatives’ economic record
By Gwyn Morgan Several years ago, a Globe and Mail Report on Business article highlighted the newspaper’s commitment to providing “perspective” in its news stories. I have long considered that a...
No to dirty oil out east, but keep those equalization cheques coming
New Brunswick’s recent election campaign featured starkly different visions of how to lift the province’s moribund economy. The governing Progressive Conservatives saw unlocking shale gas resources...
Opinion: Major educational reform required to overcome skills shortages
The structural shift from lower-skilled manufacturing to higher-skilled professional, scientific and services jobs requires substantial growth in the number of Canadians possessing the needed training
Top 100 corporate finance deals report: P3s a viable route to bridging growing infrastructure funding gap
There’s a fundamental fairness to having users pay the costs, rather than all taxpayers
Canada reaping the bitter harvest of the jobs-without-skills gap
OECD data shows that countries with the highest apprenticeship participation rates have the lowest youth unemployment