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Guest column: Encouraging investor participation

Regulators should be cautious, placing more emphasis on efficiency in the regulation of capital markets to calm nervous investors

  • By: Ian Russell
  • October 27, 2013 November 17, 2019
  • 23:00

Who knew? The creative side of clutter

It turns out that messiness is conducive to creative thinking. Sometimes, though, it's hard to see the results among the chaos

  • By: Paul Rush
  • October 27, 2013 October 29, 2019
  • 23:00

Will natural gas fuel B.C.’s future?

Christy Clark says new gas plants will be golden for B.C. But taxes and global competition could be spoilers

  • By: Brian Lewis
  • October 27, 2013 October 29, 2019
  • 23:00

Redefining “expensive”

TORONTO

Too quiet: Where is everybody?

WINNIPEGWinnipeg's core could be vibrant again - if city residents believed

More women on boards sends a message

Editorial

  • By: IE Staff
  • October 14, 2013 October 29, 2019
  • 23:00

Is big biz deserting Harper?

OttawaSome recent comments from business leaders, or lack of such comments, suggest that their support for Harper could be waning

Water and politics

Despite a tug of war initiated by CUPE, voters opted for a public/private group to build a new treatment plant in Regina

Quebec’s contentious autumn

The PQ is stirring cultural controversy, despite its minority position

So much for Peak Oil

Improved technology and more efficiency mean North America could eventually become an oil exporter

  • By: George Koch
  • September 19, 2013 October 29, 2019
  • 23:00

Still out of the service area

The wireless debacle, with Verizon doing a U-turn on Canada, is bad for business - and consumers

Five years on, and little to show

Editorial

  • By: IE Staff
  • September 19, 2013 October 29, 2019
  • 23:00

Phone stories from H___. (Rhymes with “Bell”)

Fifty years of faithful payment means nothing to the mother corp.

  • By: Paul Rush
  • September 19, 2013 October 29, 2019
  • 23:00

Guest column: Regulators should move cautiously

It's crucial that future regulation not be based on Canada's lack of confidence due to a misguided inferiority complex

Layoffs now, more jobs later?

Irving Shipbuilding Inc. is gearing up for the full rollout of the $25-billion federal shipbuilding contract the firm won in 2011 by laying off workers…

Opposing views on diligence

One writer takes issue with a recent IE editorial, asserting failure to distinguish between industry members another lauds IE's editorials for their candour and sense…

  • By: IE Staff
  • August 22, 2013 October 29, 2019
  • 23:00

Storms ahead?

On a recent flight from Moncton to Toronto, I sat next to two men heading to jobs in the oilsands. They were scaffolders. (I didn’t…

  • By: Mike Ganley
  • August 22, 2013 October 29, 2019
  • 23:00

No power to the people

Difficulties in getting partners onside plagues the Muskrat Falls hydro project

  • By: Gavin Will
  • August 22, 2013 October 29, 2019
  • 23:00

A carbon tax that works

B.C.'s experiment with a carbon tax proves it's possible to go green without killing growth

  • By: Brian Lewis
  • August 22, 2013 October 29, 2019
  • 23:00

Give private solutions time to work

Editorial

  • By: IE Staff
  • August 22, 2013 October 29, 2019
  • 23:00

Summer in the city

You’ve heard of Quebec language inspectors. Now, the province has B&B inspectors on the prowl. Quebec now has provincial tourism employees searching the Internet for…

  • By: Andy Riga
  • July 25, 2013 October 29, 2019
  • 23:00

A different way to get to the top

RBC will place its lion logo on some of the city's biggest buildings

Of pipits and longspurs

Ottawa's decision to end the Community Pastures program is meeting high-profile opposition

Where is Harper’s Richelieu?

The prime minister needs a tough chief of staff. Otherwise, he has to do the dirty work himself

Fixing the broken windows

Editorial

  • By: IE Staff
  • July 25, 2013 October 29, 2019
  • 23:00