The United States leads the world as a bastion of free enterprise featuring an entrepreneurial ecosystem that births start-ups that could greatly benefit from access to Canadian markets through Canada’s Start-Up Visa program. This is the home of many vibrant start-up environments, including Silicon Valley, the tech hub in California that has spawned innovation and
The controversy over pipelines and how much oil lies underneath Alberta may suggest that Canada has more than enough oil to meet its needs. And yet, Canada is importing more oil than ever before. In the Unites States, oil exports have hit a 15-year high. Most of it is getting shipped to Canada, according to
Recently, the New York Times reported that the median income in Canada had surpassed the median income in the United States, based on over three decades of international income surveys analysed by LIS (a research group) and by The Upshot. That analysis showed that despite having a higher median income as recently as 2000, the
The unemployment rate in June rose by 0.1 percentage points to 7.1% as more people were searching for work in Canada. Compared to last year, employment increased by 72,000 or 0.4%. It was the lowest yearly growth rate since February 2010. Little changed in the number of hours worked in the past 12 months. Among