One answer is the seemingly insatiable greed of the super rich. It's time for not just union members but all Canadians to demand changes. If we don't start standing up for ourselves, we'll take an even bigger fall in the years ahead.

The post-Cold War years were good for the fortunes of small countries. Small states did indeed seem beautiful in the 1990s and early 2000s. The end o...

Despite what Mark Steyn says about the U.S. as a nation of debt carriers, it still has more aircraft carriers than any country and can protect itself. The essential strength of America is that it's a free country with free speech and economic opportunity. And it's filled with Americans.

This latest go-round of negativity has nothing to do with a lack of earnings or liquidity, as we dealt with in 2008. This is all about waiting for firms to open the taps and start using their burgeoning sacks of cash. This makes the difference between a firm staying afloat and getting capsized by a rogue recession wave.

North American stock markets closed lower Friday, adding to their sharp losses a day earlier. On Friday, Canada's benchmark S...

Emerging economies have numerous leaders visiting them in efforts to hitch onto success and it is a very good sign that Canada is in the mix. Yet when the troubles hit, Canada will likely to return to established friends -- even when those friends have precipitated risky economic activity.

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama struck a positive note on Thursday as he strode into the White House briefing room to s...

The Bank of Canada weighed in with a few of its own comments as to Canada's economic direction and, more importantly, the challenges facing it at last week's FOMC meeting.