Jim Stanford is Harold Innis Industry Professor of Economics at McMaster University. No one should be surprised Ontario Premier Doug Ford cancelled the upcoming increase in the province’s minimum wage. It was scheduled to jump... read more
Jim Stanford is Harold Innis Industry Professor of Economics at McMaster University. Ontarians watched with fascination as provincial Progressive Conservatives demonstrated their proficiency at counting leadership ballots. Now, voters are waiting to see if the... read more
Jim Stanford is Harold Innis Industry Professor of Economics at McMaster University, and currently lives in Sydney, Australia. After years of waffling, Malaysia’s state-owned Petronas finally pulled the plug last week on its Pacific Northwest... read more
Jim Stanford is Harold Innes Industry Professor of Economics at McMaster University and an adviser to Unifor. For a company whose raison d’ être is loyalty, the executives and shareholders of Aimia must wish a... read more
Jim Stanford worked as economist for the Canadian Auto Workers, and then Unifor, for more than 20 years. He is now Harold Innis Industry Professor of Economics at McMaster University, and lives in Sydney, Australia.... read more
Jim Stanford is the Harold Innis industry professor of economics at McMaster University. The federal Liberals have successfully engineered an about-face in public attitudes toward fiscal policy. Rejecting the previous preoccupation with balanced budgets, Prime... read more
Jim Stanford is an economist with Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector trade union. With Tuesday’s release of quarterly GDP data, Statistics Canada confirmed that Canada fell into recession in the first half of the year. Canada’s... read more
By Jane Rooney, Financial Literacy Leader Young people today face a bewildering number of consumer choices and ever-higher costs for major life events like post-secondary education. The temptation to spend money on the latest electronics,... read more
By Paul Cappon: Heading into the Sochi Olympics, the home team from Russia appeared to be the favourites. They failed badly, humiliated because the team played less well than the sum of its parts. The... read more