Category: Business

Darwin Development has submitted a plan for a scaled-back version of its massive North Shore Innovation District (NSID) that includes hundreds of discounted rental homes for North Vancouver School District staff and other local workers. Last year, Darwin had been working towards entitling the NSID master-planned community just on the Dollarton Highway just east of […]

In July 2018, an international agency that sets anti-money laundering standards quietly released an explanatory report on professional money laundering. In the 53-page report, the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force made a stunning claim: A “massive” underground bank in B.C. had laundered more than $1 billion a year. The underground bank offered its services, says […]

A high-end smart phone is expensive. It might be one of the top five most expensive things you own. Unlike your car, though, which you have to constantly feed and repair, your phone is capable of pitching in. No, it’s not going to get out of bed in the morning and haul itself off to […]

Mainstream economic policymaking rests on a division of labor: The Federal Reserve should worry about managing the macro-economy — balancing job creation against inflation — while Congress should focus on balancing its budgets. But now this way of doing business is coming under assault, thanks to things like Modern Monetary Theory and the left’s push […]

Mainstream economic policymaking rests on a division of labor: The Federal Reserve should worry about managing the macro-economy — balancing job creation against inflation — while Congress should focus on balancing its budgets. But now this way of doing business is coming under assault, thanks to things like Modern Monetary Theory and the left’s push […]

The German economy ground to a halt in the fourth quarter of last year. For most economic observers, this was a startling development. Despite the never-ending economic crises wracking Europe, Germany seemed like a perpetual bright spot, steadily clocking in 2-to-2.5 percent real GDP growth since 2014. But in the last year, Germany’s growth nosedived […]

Referring to Amazon’s decision to pull its H2Q campus out of New York’s Long Island City, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told NBC’s Chuck Todd “this is an example of an abuse of corporate power,” on Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press. “They said they wanted a partnership, but the minute there were […]

The B.C. government’s new budget will probably look a lot like its old budget. That is deliberate, says Finance Minister Carole James, because the governing New Democratic Party’s priorities haven’t changed: affordable housing, child care and climate change. “What we’re looking at is budget 2019 basically building on what we did in budget 2018,” James […]