March 9, 2015 – The hidden costs of congestion are between $500 million and $1.2 billion a year for the Metro Vancouver area, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.
In “Tackling Traffic: The Economic Cost of Congestion in Metro Vancouver,” author Benjamin Dachis finds…
Read moreMarch 4, 2015 – Ottawa needs to change federal tax rules so that they accommodate single-employer Target Benefit Plans (TBP), according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In “The Taxation of Single-Employer Target Benefit Plans – Where We Are and Where We Ought To Be,” authors Barry Gros,…
Read moreMarch 2, 2015 – The C.D. Howe Institute’s Monetary Policy Council today released a special report entitled “Oil Prices, Economic Growth and Monetary Policy.” The report presents Council member views regarding the impact of the fall in oil prices on the Canadian economy and the implications…
Read moreMarch 2, 2015 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the re-appointment of Edward Iacobucci as a Fellow-In-Residence and as the Institute’s Competition Policy Scholar.
“Ed is an outstanding scholar in law and economics,” said Robson. “We look forward to…
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