This latest scandal claims there are 450 Canadians who may be hiding money offshore. The only solution is to impose sanctions and travel restrictions on dirty money havens and to pursue, as ruthlessly as the IRS does, deposits belonging to corrupt dictators, drug cartels or tax deadbeats.

PARIS - A leading international economy body says the global economy is beginning to rebound, but Canada is lagging several other members of the Group...

PARIS - The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development says large multinationals are using legal loopholes to avoid paying their fair shar...

PARIS - Governments looking to boost growth should focus on further narrowing the "gender gap" that continues to hold women back in education, employm...

Last time, I took the Commission to task for trying to build excitement over the level of cellphone penetration in Canada in their consultation video. Why? Because the only metric that really counts in 2012 is the takeup of smartphones: smartphones do data, feature phones don't. Let's consider penetration in a more meaningful context.

OTTAWA - With global conditions weakening, Canada's economy will remain in the slow growth lane until the middle of next year, the Organization for Ec...

OTTAWA - The 21st century may not exactly belong to Canada, but according to a major world economic body the country is going to do pretty well.In fac...

OTTAWA - The OECD says leading indicators in Canada point to continued growth, but below the long-term trend for the country.The economic prospects fo...

Economic turmoil may have been pushing young people out of the workforce and sidelining them from their educational goals, but a report from the Organ...

PARIS - A Paris-based think-tank predicts economies of the Group of Seven countries will grow at an annualized rate of just 0.3 per cent in the third ...

Another sordid example of banksterism -- money laundering -- surfaced this week accompanied, not surprisingly, by a blistering global poll that shows faith in capitalism is shrinking. The HSBC (Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation), the largest financial institution in Europe, revealed "major internal-control problems" and plans to apologize for its lapses next week to members of a U.S. Senate subcommittee into terrorist and trafficking money laundering.

OTTAWA - The weak global recovery is turning unemployment into a long-term structural problem with the potential to scar youth and some workers the re...

The OECD is weighing in on the controversy surrounding whether Canada is suffering from an economic condition known as Dutch Disease, and its qualifie...

Spurring innovation and improving post-secondary education in Canada will be crucial to boosting sluggish productivity growth, which is the most signi...

The famed economist John Maynard Keynes once predicted that his grandchildren would work a 15-hour week. If that’s the future, we’re getting there...

OTTAWA - Moves by the federal government to tighten mortgage lending rules aren't doing enough to cool the housing market in the hottest regions in th...

Predictions for next year, left to their own devices, look pretty bleak. Last month, Christine Lagarde warned of a 1930s meltdown in the global economy. So my wish is that we declare 2012 the year of the unreasonable, establish an unreasonable list and set ourselves some ridiculously ambitious goals.