by admin | Apr 6, 2021 | Analysis, Insights
In March, the Business Council of Alberta conducted its third Alberta Business Expectations Survey (BES)—a quarterly tool to assess recent trends in business conditions and economic expectations in the province. This survey captures the perspective of BCA’s strongest...
by admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Analysis, Insights
Productivity is about expanding our human potential—individually and collectively—to create more and better, with a limited amount of time and resources. In the final commentary of this series on productivity, we now turn to perhaps the most important question of this...
by admin | Mar 22, 2021 | Analysis, Insights
Towards Fiscal Sustainability—Summary– Alberta’s current fiscal challenge is great and the trajectory is concerning. Simply put, the province has both a spending and a revenue problem. While in the past resource revenues filled this gap, we cannot count on...
by admin | Mar 17, 2021 | Analysis, Insights
Last Friday’s Labour Force update for the month of February was a hopeful one. Across Canada, employment rose with the easing of restrictions on non-essential businesses such as in-person dining and cultural and recreational facilities. Around 260,000 more individuals...
by admin | Mar 10, 2021 | Analysis, Insights
Productivity is at the heart of the human desire to continuously create and improve and yet it’s rarely given the attention it deserves. In this commentary series, we are uncovering and reframing the concept with people at the centre. In our first commentary, we...
by admin | Mar 2, 2021 | Analysis, Insights
If we want to build a bright future for all Canadians, we need to think deeply about how to unlock our collective productivity. In the first commentary of our Productivity Series, we explain why economists have something of an obsession with this concept; illustrate...
