Media Releases

April 3, 2024 – As 2024 Chair of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) Commission, Canada has the unique opportunity to help repair the fragmentation of today’s global trading system by promoting global institution building, according to a new C.D.…

March 21, 2024 – A new leading economic indicator is flashing warning signs, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. 

In “Tell-tale Signals: A Customized Toolkit for Tracking the Economy,” authors Jeremy Kronick, Steve Ambler and Mawakina Bafale introduce a leading economic…

March 14, 2024 – Target-benefit plans (TBPs) need regulations to be clear in their objectives and flexible to allow these plans to thrive, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.

In “Strength in Diversity: What We Can Learn from BC’s Target-benefit Plans,”…

March 5, 2024 – Canada’s competition legislation should remain effects-based and should not enshrine into law presumptions of harm from mergers based on market share thresholds, according to the C.D. Howe Institute’s Competition Policy Council. In “…