Media Releases

Toronto, July 28 – While the Bank of Canada expects the Canadian economy to return to full employment by the middle of 2012, its critics have stressed the need to raise interest rates to a “neutral” value by then to keep inflation stable. But defining this neutral level, normally associated with…

July 19, 2011 – After years of looming power shortages, Ontario faces a periodic problem of excess electricity supply. This costly oversupply, which the province must take under fixed-price contracts with generators, leads to higher electricity bills for consumers.

In “Plugging into…

July 13, 2011 – The time is right for the Bank of Canada to start raising interest rates, according to a report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Overnight Moves: The Bank of Canada Should Start to Raise Interest Rates Now,” leading monetary economist Michael Parkin warns that delayed action…

July 7, 2011 - The C.D. Howe Institute today announced the appointment of Professor Edward M. Iacobucci as its Competition Policy Scholar.

A longtime associate of the Institute, Professor Iacobucci is both Osler Chair in Business Law and Associate Dean, Research, at the University of…