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Forward Guidance: Our Weekly Preview
December 6, 2024 We think Friday’s Canadian employment report should tell a familiar story—that the labour market has continued to weaken in October amid slowing hiring demand.Podcast: The 10-Minute Take
October 31, 2024 Claire Fan and Carrie Freestone discuss the jumbo BoC interest rate cut, why it was bigger and what to expect going forward, given the new immigration targets.RBC Consumer Spending Tracker
October 16, 2024 Canadians’ spending plateaued over the summer with further signs of slowing momentum in August.
Canada’s Growth Challenge:
Why the economy is stuck in neutral
June 4, 2024
Canada has a growth problem. The economic momentum that propelled the country through the 20th century has faded in the 21st, and appears to have worsened since the pandemic. Higher interest rates have slowed per-capita output since 2019, but the problems run deeper than that. Our economy is now smaller than it was in 2019 […]
Think Small: How Canada can make small modular nuclear reactors a priority
May 14, 2024 Canada has urgent and challenging energy choices to make. We will need to rapidly scale power generation to service the needs of a growing economy, while simultaneously reducing net-carbon emissions to zero by 2050 to meet our climate targets. Given the current technological outlook, there is no single energy source that can meet those competing […]
The Great Rebuild
Seven ways to fix Canada’s housing shortage
April 8, 2024
Too many Canadians are struggling to find a home they can afford—making housing the defining issue of this country’s politics and economics.
B.C. Budget 2024: Projected deficit doubles from 2023 as spending is prioritized
February 23, 2024 New rebates and tax credits prevent revenue from surpassing the fiscal 2022-23 level ($82 billion), driving a wedge between revenue and expenditure.Davos 2024: A year of creative destruction, or just destruction?
January 23, 2024 The World Economic Forum is always a contradiction of hope and anxiety. This year’s version felt like peak paradox.The week-long gathering of government, business and civil society leaders, in Davos, Switzerland, was designed to focus on a global crisis of trust.John Stackhouse: Canada’s New Season Of Climate Discontent
November 10, 2023 The weather in Ottawa turned gnarly this week, as did the politics around Net Zero. Is this the winter of our climate discontent?1 of 37