With Ontario’s latest election campaign period concluding this week, the prevailing thought, I believe, is just how much the world has changed in the last four years. This is particularly true of [...]

If you’ve been following the news over the last week, you’ll know that the Liberals already slow-walked most of their biggest budget announcements before tabling it in the House yesterday [...]

Today, Rise Up Strategies celebrates its 5-year anniversary, and while we feel securely established, the journey is only just beginning. It’s not in our nature at Rise Up to boast about our [...]

In her remarks to reporters this Wednesday, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland was clear.  “This update is what it says on the title page: It is an economic and fiscal update. This is not the [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a drastic increase in the number of Canadians working from home. If employers are willing and able to accommodate employees demand for telework moving forward, [...]

After 36 days of campaigning, we’ve ended up where we started: a Liberal minority government that will require support to shore up its legislative agenda through negotiation and compromise. Not a [...]

With the federal election in full swing, climate change once again takes center stage across party lines. The difference now is all parties agree that climate change is a credible threat that [...]

To say a lot has happened in Canadian politics of late would be an understatement, so let’s take stock.  The current session of Parliament began in December of 2019, just two months following the [...]

In last month’s federal budget proposal, the Canadian government committed to offering its very first Green Bond stating its desire to ensure Canada is competitive in a market where investors are [...]

In September of 2015, then Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, stood before a group of leading insurers assembled by Lloyd's of London. His message to those assembled was stark: any [...]