Representing Small Business

If we include the self-employed as ‘workers’, fully 98% of Canada’s private sector firms have less than 50 employees. Zero...

The Editorial Board

My colleague Randolph does an admirable job of narrating the content for most of these blog posts. Randolph doesn’t really...

Seeing the World As It Is – Statistics

Many years ago, I was chatting with a neighbour at my parent’s home on beautiful Saturna Island, located between Vancouver...

INCREASING IMPORTANCE OF SELF-EMPLOYMENT AMONG OLDER WORKERS

“Among Canadians, the rate of self-employment—that is, the number of self-employed workers as a share of total employment—has been relatively...

UNDERSTANDING THE SEISMIC SHIFTS IN CANADA’S ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE

Five short decades ago, the economic landscape in Canada and the world was vastly different. Five decades before that farming...

How Big is Small – It Depends

So, How Big is Small?Everybody seems to have a different definition the Globe's Report on Small Business gets delivered to...