Organization: Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity

The Short Report – May 1, 2019: Licensing income, new Teachers fund, federal investments

Details are beginning to emerge on cuts to R&D in the April 11 Ontario budget: $1 million for the Mowat Centre (closing), the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity (closing) and the province’s Health System Research Fund (clawed back). R$ will investigate these and other cuts further. – Mowat Centre Canada and Japan have signed two…

Canada improves competitiveness ranking

Canada has dramatically improved its global competitiveness ranking from #13 in 2007 to #9 in 2009, according to the World Economic Forum, a Swiss-based not-for-profit foundation aimed at improving corporate governance. The Forum now ranks Canada ahead of the UK, Korea and Hong Kong, based primarily on performance in sub-indexes such as flexibility of labour…