August 30, 2022 – The Bank of Canada needs to take into account prevailing interest rate environments and adjust its monetary policy tools accordingly, finds a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Lessons from the Yield Curve: Evaluating Monetary Policy in Different Interest Rate…
Read moreAugust 23, 2022 – Canada faces a serious shortage in employees with digital and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills amid a tight labour market and rising demand for digital-oriented jobs.
To address this, Canada needs to increase…
Read moreAugust 16, 2022 – Business investment in Canada is so weak that capital per member of the labour force is falling, and the implications for incomes and competitiveness are ominous. Governments, particularly the federal government, need to get serious about growth to…
Read moreAugust 4, 2022 – At the five-month mark, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine has the heavy cost of US$8.9 trillion conservatively, a loss equivalent to more than four times the entire annual income of all Canadians. The estimates include human costs of $4…
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