“Among Canadians, the rate of self-employment—that is, the number of self-employed workers as a share of total employment—has been relatively stable, hovering around 15% over the last decade. However, when we focus on the core-age group (those aged 40 and older), interesting patterns emerge: Overall Self-Employment Rate:In 2018, approximately 2.9 million Canadians were self-employed, up … Read more
Audit and management consulting work are largely irrelevant for the smaller 99% of firms that dominate the sector. Auditing has been declining in importance since the US public markets started shrinking since their heyday in the mid to late 1990s. Today private equity is the most common way for early-stage companies to scale their operations. … Read more
Bloatware in Canadian Colleges – YouTube.com Despite their assertions about developing critical thinking skills in graduates or protecting the public interest, our education industry seems to have succumbed to a sales culture and growth at-all-costs model more in keeping with private sector businesses than quasi-public organizations. Canadian demographics have shifted in a big way over … Read more
Canada’s Business Development Bank weighs in on the ‘decline in the number of Canadian entrepreneurs’ A few days ago, I came across several articles in the Globe and Mail on a new study by the BDC and the University of Montreal. The study addressed a supposed decline in the number of Canadian ‘entrepreneurs’. “The study … Read more
