Doug Firby - Micro News - Calgary - Alberta - Canada

Breaking down provincial trade barriers an agonizing ordeal

Posted by Doug Firby | Jan 20, 2020

Interprovincial trade constraints cost the Canadian economy as much $130 billion a year and may harm international trade

Posted by Doug Firby | Jan 6, 2020

For business, an ideology-driven agenda – whether from the right or the left – doesn’t create favourable conditions for investment

Posted by Doug Firby | Dec 23, 2019

Alberta’s economy needs a break after five brutal years since oil prices fell, driving our economy into an agonizing period of stasis

Posted by Doug Firby | Dec 16, 2019

When one government offers incentives and another one doesn’t, then the competition to attract new businesses is no longer a level playing field

Posted by Doug Firby | Dec 9, 2019

It was actually the federal Liberals and Alberta’s previous NDP government that did the heavy lifting needed to get the project started