The Canadian Chamber of Commerce has issued a report entitled Looking into the Crystal Ball: Economic, Political and Technology Outlook 2015. This report highlights the big economic, political and technological trends that will shape global business in 2015 and beyond as presented by a panel of experts at our Crystal Ball Symposium, held last month. Highlights…
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce issued a report entitled The Measures that Matter: How Canada’s Natural Resource Sector Is Working to Protect the Environment. Natural resources are essential to our quality of life; they help build, fuel and feed the world. While natural resource production is needed to support growing global prosperity, it is also…
(Greater Sudbury, December 22, 2014) The Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce is pleased at the announcement that the province has included the Maley Drive Extension in the list of priority infrastructure projects that have been forwarded on to the federal government for proposed funding through the New Building Canada Plan. The chamber is optimistically waiting…
At last night’s first meeting of the new council, a motion was presented to vote on the issue of store hours in the community. This motion was brought forward as a follow-up to the results achieved in the 2014 municipal referendum. With an outcome of 11-2 in favour of deregulation, the Greater Sudbury Chamber of…
In this edition of 5 Minutes for Business, Hendrik Brakel, Senior Director, Economic, Financial and Tax Policy at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, explains why we are seeing lower oil prices and what it will mean for the Canadian economy. Oil prices have dropped by 40% since June, an astonishingly rapid decline. Why has this…
TORONTO, December 8, 2014: The Ontario Chamber of Commerce and its network of 160 chambers in communities across the province are urging the government to defer legislation that will pave the way for the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP). The business group is calling on the Government of Ontario to answer outstanding questions about the…
