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Beat China On Cost: Gildan taps other labour pool and trade pacts
The idea is out there: the entrance of China into the global trading community has become threat No. 1 for many western manufacturers. Since China joined the World Trade Organization, in 2001, it has...
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Lessons for Canada’s coming Burma trade
Companies cannot succeed in societies that fail, or so argue Daniel Esty and Andrew Winston in Green to Gold, their seminal book on corporate environmental strategy. And by almost every measure, Burma...
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INFOGRAPHIC: How Mexico is overtaking Canada’s auto sector
As Unifor fights to form a union at Toyota’s manufacturing plant in Kitchener, Ont., Canada’s position as a car-producing juggernaut is quickly slipping away. In 2013, Mexico was the third-largest...
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The real opportunities in China today are found farther inland
Over 50,000 people attended this August job fair in Chongqing, China (ChinaFotoPress/Getty) From Alberta alfalfa farmers to industrial giants like Magna International, many Canadian companies have...
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Amid the recession gloom, service exports are still going strong
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Fakrul Jamil/Getty) Tuesday’s Statistics Canada release confirmed that Canada did indeed experience a recession during the first half of the year. The energy sector was...
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For many MBA programs now, global experience comes standard
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How the Trans-Pacific Partnership will grow Canada’s service exports
Skyline of Taipei, Taiwan. (Craig Ferguson/Lightrocket/Getty) The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations could wrap up this week. Headlines focus largely on the impact on Canada’s dairy and auto...
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With this TPP deal, chalk up a victory for Stephen Harper
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper speaks during a press conference regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal in Ottawa on Monday, October 5, 2015. (Nathan Denette/CP) Prime Minister Stephen Harper...
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Canada’s Most Powerful Business People 2016: #49 — Benoit Daignault
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Dynamic Structures’ wild ride from steelmaker to theme park innovator
Staff testing a “flying theatre” at Dynamic Structures’ facility in Port Coquitlam, B.C. (Photo by Hubert Kang) “This dumps you down. You feel like you’re falling,” Guy Nelson says, pointing to a...
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Canada’s cleantech industry is bigger than you think
(Creative Commons/US Navy) Prior to 2014, Canada’s clean technology industry was growing at four times the rate of the country’s overall economy. Currently, it has 774 firms—that’s in comparison to the...
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Why are Canadians turning their backs on free trade?
Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne (centre, in blue) visits the Golden Temple in Amritsar in January 2016, during a trade mission to India. (Sameer Sehgal/Hindustan Times/Getty) Ontario Premier Kathleen...
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A new U.S. president requires rethinking Canada’s export policies
Hillary Clinton campaigning in Pittsburgh, PA, in July 2016. (Justin Sullivan/Getty) Historically, U.S. Presidential elections come with so many unexpected twists, turns and surprises. The November 8,...
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Even in the age of Trump, there are U.S. trade opportunities for Canada
Car shipment crossing the Canada-U.S. border at Niagara Falls. (John Moore/Getty) Fluidconcepts has produced office furnishing for MGM Studios, H&R Block and Variety magazine, among other U.S....
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