Just got off the phone with Chris Braddock, director of procurement policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, based in Washington, D.C. He's just a tad frustrated with Buy American – the riders added to short-term stimulus funding that imply only U.S. companies can bid on stimulus-related contracts at the ...

I had a conversation earlier today in Montreal with Jeffrey Immelt, the chairman and CEO of General Electric Co. (GE), who was pretty blunt in his assessment of the so-called Buy American provision in President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill.

Van Jones is a powerhouse. There's no other way to describe him. The one-time community-activist has taken his poverty- and pollution-busting agenda all the way from the nonprofit he founded in Oakland CA to the White House. As of the past four weeks, Jones is the special advisor on green ...

Channeling the 1773 pre-Revolutionary War protests in Boston, Massachusetts, hundreds of tea party protests have taken place across the United States today in a nationwide backlash against excessive government spending and bailouts. The protests were timed to coincide with tax deadline day.

Did I say the G20 governments were going to give $500 billion to the IMF? Make that more than $1 trillion. The meeting has wrapped up and results are in — no to protectionism, yes to more stimulus and tighter regulation.

The latest issue of Rotman magazine (published by the Rotman School of Management) has an interesting article (not available online) about the 80-20 challenge: the need to reduce the world’s carbon dioxide emissions by 60% to 80% over the next 20 years to avoid, well, catastrophe.

The Ontario Government’s 2009 Budget will harmonize the Goods & Services Tax (GST) and Provincial Sales Tax (PST). Ontario citizens will pay one sales tax of 13% on goods and services.

Every morning, a pile of clippings from around the world arrives on my desk, courtesy of sagacious newsgatherer and Canadian Business research associate Miguel Rakiewicz. Selections from this morning’s pile: