In The News
- CTV News
- Governments are on the lookout for cuts – but are they going about it in the right way? Amanda Lang discusses with John Lester, fellow-in-residence at the C.D. Howe Institute.
- BNN Bloomberg
- Jeremy Kronick, president & CEO of C.D. Howe Institute, joined BNN Bloomberg to discuss the Bank of Canada’s June rate decision.
- Matthew McClearn
- Despite persisting concerns about rising demand for power from electric vehicles, data centres and a growing population, electricity prices have actually decreased in most Canadian provinces in recent years, according to a new study published by the C.D. Howe Institute.
- Gérald Fillion
- Il faut savoir qu’au Canada, c’est l’institut C.D. Howe qui calcule les cycles économiques. Les économistes de cette organisation évaluent la durée, l’amplitude et l’étendue des cycles et définissent une récession comme étant un déclin prononcé et persistant de l’économie.
- Craig Lord
- The council said in a bulletin Friday that two quarters of declining GDP in a row are not sufficient to call a recession and urged against reading too much into the recent data.
- Kevin Yin
- In the United States, the National Bureau of Economic Research, which is in charge of dating recessions, does not define recessions this way. Neither does the C.D. Howe Institute’s Business Cycle Council, the closest equivalent in Canada.
- Mark Gollom
- But Steven Ambler, a panel member of the Business Cycle Council, said the panel does not accept the recent Statistics Canada GDP data as criterion for declaring a recession.
- Kim Moody
- Only about one-third of returns are simple enough for the CRA to complete from the data it holds, according to research cited in a recent C.D. Howe Institute study.
- David Rosenberg
- In Canada, recessions are formally dated after the fact by the C.D. Howe Institute’s Business Cycle Council, which looks at depth, duration and breadth across employment, income and output, not just the GDP line. They haven’t declared one, but it is a very close call.
August, 14 2026
Governments are on the lookout for cuts – but are they going about it in the right way? Amanda Lang discusses with John Lester, fellow-in-residence at the C.D. Howe Institute.
June, 10 2026
Jeremy Kronick, president & CEO of C.D. Howe Institute, joined BNN Bloomberg to discuss the Bank of Canada’s June rate decision.
June, 8 2026
Despite persisting concerns about rising demand for power from electric vehicles, data centres and a growing population, electricity prices have actually decreased in most Canadian provinces in recent years, according to a new study published by the C.D. Howe Institute.
June, 5 2026
Il faut savoir qu’au Canada, c’est l’institut C.D. Howe qui calcule les cycles économiques. Les économistes de cette organisation évaluent la durée, l’amplitude et l’étendue des cycles et définissent une récession comme étant un déclin prononcé et persistant de l’économie.
June, 5 2026
The council said in a bulletin Friday that two quarters of declining GDP in a row are not sufficient to call a recession and urged against reading too much into the recent data.
June, 3 2026
In the United States, the National Bureau of Economic Research, which is in charge of dating recessions, does not define recessions this way. Neither does the C.D. Howe Institute’s Business Cycle Council, the closest equivalent in Canada.
June, 3 2026
But Steven Ambler, a panel member of the Business Cycle Council, said the panel does not accept the recent Statistics Canada GDP data as criterion for declaring a recession.
June, 2 2026
Only about one-third of returns are simple enough for the CRA to complete from the data it holds, according to research cited in a recent C.D. Howe Institute study.
June, 2 2026
In Canada, recessions are formally dated after the fact by the C.D. Howe Institute’s Business Cycle Council, which looks at depth, duration and breadth across employment, income and output, not just the GDP line. They haven’t declared one, but it is a very close call.
May, 31 2026
He and economist Parisa Mahboubi co-authored a recent study for the CD Howe Institute, that forecasts the long-term GDP growth rate through to 2060 for Canada at 1.2 per cent, well below the 1.5 per cent projection in the spring economic update.