From: Joel Blit, Chuanmo Jin and Mikal Skuterud To: Canadians Concerned About the Economy Date: August 21, 2020 Re: Re-opening and Re-closing the Economy Strategically In the relative calm between waves of COVID-19, policymakers are facing pressure to shift their focus from efforts to control the virus, towards ways to revive the economy. But the biggest determinant […]
From: Tammy Schirle and Mikal Skuterud To: Bill Morneau, Minister of Finance Date: August 12, 2020 Re: Job search, new jobs, and what it means for future policy It is now widely recognized that the economic burden of COVID-19 shutdowns in March and April overwhelmingly fell on Canada’s lowest-wage workers. Between February and April, aggregate […]
From: John Richards and Parisa Mahboubi To: Provincial Ministers of Education Date: August 10, 2020 Re: Canada Has Three Other Education Problems in Addition to Teaching During the Pandemic Once provincial governments, parents, and teachers decide how best to teach kids during the pandemic, here are three other problems to tackle. Although Canada continues to rank among the […]
From: David Johnson To: Canadians concerned about school re-openings Date: August 7, 2020 Re: Teaching with COVID Restrictions in Elementary Schools: What Can Be Done? Last week, the Ontario government announced a plan to reopen elementary schools. Its plan requires very little additional spending, operates within the existing school day and space, operates exactly within existing collective agreements and, […]
Schools Face Three Nettlesome Challenges Beyond COVID Author John Richards looks at data from OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and finds declining scores in core subjects and wide gaps in achievement between advantaged and disadvantaged students. The OECD’s PISA has become a universally respected means to assess student outcomes in reading, mathematics, and […]
Consumers Lose as Occupational Licensing Expands A trend toward increased occupational licensing in Canada drives up costs for consumers and inhibits competition. Authors Robert Mysicka, Lucas Cutler and Tingting Zhang explore how a growing number of occupations in Canada require members to be licensed or otherwise regulated and how, in many cases, the added costs consumers […]
From: Tammy Schirle and Mikal Skuterud To: Canadians Concerned about the Labour Market Date: July 15, 2020 Re: The moms are not all right Last week’s release of the June Labour Force Survey gave Canadians reason for optimism – the numbers made it clear that many workers are finding their way back to work. It is now evident that […]
From: John Richards To: Marc Miller, Minister of Indigenous Services, and provincial ministers of education Date: July 10, 2020 Re: The Employment Key to Healthy Indigenous Communities (III) We have surveyed the Community Well-Being Index (CWB) results for First Nation communities, and the centrality of employment for community success in the first two parts of this Intelligence Memo series. […]
From: John Richards To: Marc Miller, Minister of Indigenous Services, and provincial ministers of education Date: July 8, 2020 Re: Education the Critical Piece for an Indigenous Urban Agenda Since 1981, Ottawa has published the Community Well-Being Index (CWB), an exercise in rating social conditions in individual First Nation and Inuit communities. Using census data, the CWB is […]
From: Stéphanie Lluis To: Canadians Concerned about the State of the Labour Market Date: July 2, 2020 Re: Regional Differences in Job Growth Shows Ottawa Must Think Regionally The massive and sudden drop in employment caused by the pandemic has been followed by uncertainty about when, where, and how quickly the economy is re-opening. Collectively, these factors create a coordination problem in the labour […]
From: Cyrille Schwellnus and Michael Koelle To: Bill Morneau, Minister of Finance Date: June 30, 2020 Re: Supporting incomes while promoting a speedy labour market recovery In response to the jobs crisis triggered by COVID-19, a number of countries, including Australia, Japan, New Zealand and most of Western Europe, have established or expanded job retention […]
From: Ken Boessenkool and Jennifer Robson To: Federal and provincial childcare funders Date: June 24, 2020 Re: Thoughts on forestalling the coming childcare crisis As the economy continues to re-open, albeit differently across jurisdictions and over time, many sectors are going to struggle with necessary and ongoing rules on physical distancing and disinfecting. These new […]
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From: Joel Blit, Chuanmo Jin and Mikal Skuterud To: Canadians Concerned About the Economy Date: August 21, 2020 Re: Re-opening and Re-closing the Economy Strategically In the relative calm between waves of COVID-19, policymakers are facing pressure to shift their focus from efforts to control the virus, towards ways to revive the economy. But the biggest determinant […] 
From: Tammy Schirle and Mikal Skuterud To: Bill Morneau, Minister of Finance Date: August 12, 2020 Re: Job search, new jobs, and what it means for future policy It is now widely recognized that the economic burden of COVID-19 shutdowns in March and April overwhelmingly fell on Canada’s lowest-wage workers. Between February and April, aggregate […] 
From: John Richards and Parisa Mahboubi To: Provincial Ministers of Education Date: August 10, 2020 Re: Canada Has Three Other Education Problems in Addition to Teaching During the Pandemic Once provincial governments, parents, and teachers decide how best to teach kids during the pandemic, here are three other problems to tackle. Although Canada continues to rank among the […] 
From: David Johnson To: Canadians concerned about school re-openings Date: August 7, 2020 Re: Teaching with COVID Restrictions in Elementary Schools: What Can Be Done? Last week, the Ontario government announced a plan to reopen elementary schools. Its plan requires very little additional spending, operates within the existing school day and space, operates exactly within existing collective agreements and, […] 
Schools Face Three Nettlesome Challenges Beyond COVID Author John Richards looks at data from OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and finds declining scores in core subjects and wide gaps in achievement between advantaged and disadvantaged students. The OECD’s PISA has become a universally respected means to assess student outcomes in reading, mathematics, and […] 
Consumers Lose as Occupational Licensing Expands A trend toward increased occupational licensing in Canada drives up costs for consumers and inhibits competition. Authors Robert Mysicka, Lucas Cutler and Tingting Zhang explore how a growing number of occupations in Canada require members to be licensed or otherwise regulated and how, in many cases, the added costs consumers […] 
From: Tammy Schirle and Mikal Skuterud To: Canadians Concerned about the Labour Market Date: July 15, 2020 Re: The moms are not all right Last week’s release of the June Labour Force Survey gave Canadians reason for optimism – the numbers made it clear that many workers are finding their way back to work. It is now evident that […] 
From: John Richards To: Marc Miller, Minister of Indigenous Services, and provincial ministers of education Date: July 10, 2020 Re: The Employment Key to Healthy Indigenous Communities (III) We have surveyed the Community Well-Being Index (CWB) results for First Nation communities, and the centrality of employment for community success in the first two parts of this Intelligence Memo series. […] 
From: John Richards To: Marc Miller, Minister of Indigenous Services, and provincial ministers of education Date: July 8, 2020 Re: Education the Critical Piece for an Indigenous Urban Agenda Since 1981, Ottawa has published the Community Well-Being Index (CWB), an exercise in rating social conditions in individual First Nation and Inuit communities. Using census data, the CWB is […] 
From: Stéphanie Lluis To: Canadians Concerned about the State of the Labour Market Date: July 2, 2020 Re: Regional Differences in Job Growth Shows Ottawa Must Think Regionally The massive and sudden drop in employment caused by the pandemic has been followed by uncertainty about when, where, and how quickly the economy is re-opening. Collectively, these factors create a coordination problem in the labour […] 
From: Cyrille Schwellnus and Michael Koelle To: Bill Morneau, Minister of Finance Date: June 30, 2020 Re: Supporting incomes while promoting a speedy labour market recovery In response to the jobs crisis triggered by COVID-19, a number of countries, including Australia, Japan, New Zealand and most of Western Europe, have established or expanded job retention […] 
From: Ken Boessenkool and Jennifer Robson To: Federal and provincial childcare funders Date: June 24, 2020 Re: Thoughts on forestalling the coming childcare crisis As the economy continues to re-open, albeit differently across jurisdictions and over time, many sectors are going to struggle with necessary and ongoing rules on physical distancing and disinfecting. These new […]