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Marketing Matters

Readers of this column know that I am a big booster of local business and get quite frustrated when Calgary firms feel they have to search elsewhere for talent that

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Fixing Equalization

In late October, the Wildrose Party released the Equalization Fairness Panel report, which listed six recommendations for the reform of equalization. I was honoured to be a member of this

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Marketing Matters

ClearMotive Marketing Group is working with Costa Coffee, the largest coffee chain in the U.K., to help it become established in Canada. The company has been rolling out its Costa

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A Carbon Tax is Still a Tax

I find it difficult to understand the left-wing’s love affair with taxes. It is clearly tied up with their belief that there is no problem that cannot be fixed by

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Some Perspectives on the U.S. Election

As an economist, I have always found politics to be very strange. This is because many economic ideas are politically unpalatable. In these situations, politicians resort to distortions and half-truths,

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Marketing Matters

If it’s true that travel broadens the mind, then Chris McPhail and his staff at Strut Creative certainly got to know a lot about Alberta and B.C as they toured

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Op/Ed: Still Waiting for an Answer

Some readers might be aware of my interest in the public words and actions of Hollywood heavyweight Leo DiCaprio. By ‘public words and actions,’ of course I’m referring to the

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