There's no question the economy will be the hottest hot button issue in the next federal election, so it's unlikely Harper's too pleased with a new OECD report that says Canada's recovery is trailing the other G7 nations.

For the second time this year, Canadian Business Magazine has issued our proprietary ranking of 30 OECD countries. The ranking examined 49 individual indicators for each country and grouped these into 12 categories. This year, Canada's ranking increased by four positions to 7th place, a greater rise than any other ...

We have written recently in Briefcase about the Chinese government’s rise in foreign capital markets with its play for a stake in Bear Stearns, and the massively successful IPO of PetroChina, which is partly controlled by Beijing. Since those items ran there has been some pushback from such organizations as ...