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Available in English, French or Mandarin  | | | | | Bear Gutierrez/The Globe and Mail | | Lisa and Rich Flynn left Indiana four years ago to retire in rural Colorado. They bought a home with a four-pane picture window in the living room, where they set up chairs to look out on the majestic Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. | | But when the couple shift to their south-facing kitchen window, they see what’s shattered their Colorado idyll. It’s a towering rig, set up more than a kilometre away to “frack” natural gas from under nearby farmland. On the windowsill, Mr. Flynn, 65, is growing a Sansevieria plant – which is believed to absorb benzene – to block the view. |  | | | More stories below advertisement | | | | Darren Calabrese/The Globe and Mail | | IAN WILLMS/The New York Times News Service | | Sébastien Thibault /The Globe and Mail | | Canada faces multiple daunting challenges – more than ever before. Two come from nature: the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change and their fallout. The Throne Speech addresses both, as well as issues such as Indigenous reconciliation, Alberta and national unity, and greater equality. But the speech glaringly does not address what to do about Canada’s third great postwar economic challenge. | | Looking at “eras” and “moments in history” is a helpful way to look ahead. The first great postwar era occurred seven decades ago, with Canada’s inspiring economic recovery and expansion from 1945 to 1955. The second was the 1984-2004 Mulroney-Chrétien era that successfully delivered ever-increasing economic and financial discipline. | | One central tenet of those great eras was a shared approach to fundamental challenges – the idea that social advance and economic advance go hand in hand. The trouble is that good eras are normally followed by bad ones. It is not yet clear how good or bad the current new era will be for the world or Canada. There is more than the economy to get right. But nothing will be lastingly right if Canada cannot do better in fostering a more globally competitive private sector to undergird everything else the country does. | | | | | Technology, telecom and media | | | | | Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press | | |
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