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Intelligence Memos
From: Benjamin Dachis and Aaron Jacobs To: Members of Alberta’s Energy Diversification Advisory Committee Date: October 27, 2016 Re: How diversified is Alberta’s innovation? Congratulations on your appointment to this important committee. With a mandate that seeks to “explore opportunities to increase the value of energy resources, create jobs and attract new investment”, one topic that is surely…
Intelligence Memos
From: Colin Busby and Aaron Jacobs To: Federal and Provincial Health Ministers Date: September 14th, 2016 Re: Beware the Alchemy of Age-Adjusted Health Transfers With Health Accord negotiations between the provinces and Ottawa underway, at its annual general meeting the Canadian Medical Association endorsed a federally-funded “top-up” for provinces coping with older-than-average populations…
Intelligence Memos
From: Benjamin Dachis and Aaron Jacobs  To: The Honourable Chrystia Freeland Date: June 27, 2016 Re: Canadian investments to the UK are critical, but don’t forget about the continent. The result of last week’s Brexit vote has put global and Canadian financial markets into turmoil. So how much Canadian investment, both here and abroad, could be affected? There is both…
Intelligence Memos
From: Benjamin Dachis, Aaron Jacobs and Ramya Muthukumaran To: The Hon. Minister Glenn Thibeault, Ontario Minister of Energy Date: September 12th, 2016 Re: Why is Ontario’s Electricity Now More Expensive than its Neighbour’s? This week’s throne speech focused on getting the cost of electricity down. It’s now your job to figure out how. A comparison of Ontario prices to our neighbours in…
Op-Ed
What’s the bad-news Canadian economic story of 2015? The collapse in oil prices is hammering activity in the West. Even worse is how retrenchment in the oil patch, which had boosted national business investment after the 2008-09 slump, is revealing woefully weak capital spending elsewhere in the country. In a modern economy, prosperity depends vitally on capital spending by businesses. When…