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Dan Breznitz for Globe and Mail: Our competitive advantage: Canada hasn’t completely gone off the deep end

July 3, 2020

https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2020/06/20/will-working-from-home-dull-waterloo-regions-innovative-edge.html

Anita McGahan for Policy Options: How contact tracing by employers could change the economics of innovation

June 25, 2020

How contact tracing by employers could change the economics of innovation

Dan Breznitz for Policy Options: Is this Canada’s last chance to revive manufacturing and long-term prosperity?

June 24, 2020

Is this Canada’s last chance to revive manufacturing and long-term prosperity?

Shauna Brail for Policy Options: An opportunity to reimagine the role for platform economy firms

June 23, 2020

An opportunity to reimagine the role for platform economy firms

Janice Stein in CBC: Breaking down Canada’s latest Security Council election loss

June 23, 2020

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thehouse/chris-hall-breaking-down-canada-s-latest-security-council-election-loss-1.5619533

Mark Kersten for CBC: Trudeau government must stand up against Trump’s escalating attacks on International Criminal Court

June 23, 2020

https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-icc-united-states-afghanistan-investigation-1.5615688

Lynette Ong in New York Times: In This Coronavirus Wave, China Tries Something New: Restraint

June 19, 2020

Wilson Prichard in the Economist: A mayor is reforming Sierra Leone’s rotten property tax

June 19, 2020

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/06/20/a-mayor-is-reforming-sierra-leones-rotten-property-tax

Steve Orsini for Policy Options: The HST in Ontario was introduced 10 years ago in the wake of a global financial crisis. There are lessons to be drawn from the move.

June 18, 2020

What can Ontario’s HST experience teach us about economic recovery?

Dan Breznitz in Barron’s: A Lesson from the Pandemic: It’s Time to Reindustrialize the United States

June 18, 2020

https://www.barrons.com/articles/a-lesson-from-the-pandemic-its-time-to-reindustrialize-the-united-states-51592352083