The Study in Brief As more Canadians work past age 65 – due to longer life expectancy, the end of mandatory retirement, and the need or desire to keep working – rigid age cutoffs for long-term disability (LTD) insurance, typically set at 65, may be legally vulnerable. Although courts have upheld some age-based terminations of […]
From: John Richards and Tingting ZhangTo: Education watchersDate: April 9, 2025Re: Time to Address Canada’s Falling Math Scores Canada’s declining K-12 education system is sending out worrying warning signals. In the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Canadian students ranked in the top 10 among OECD countries. But that doesn’t mean all is well, and the most alarming signs are in mathematics. […]
Published in The Financial Post Canada’s declining K-12 education system is sending out worrying warning signals. In the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Canadian students ranked in the top 10 among OECD countries. But that doesn’t mean all is well, and the most alarming signs are in mathematics. Math was the only subject where Canada’s national average dropped […]
From: Parisa Mahboubi and Tingting ZhangTo: Canadian economic observersDate: March 26, 2025Re: We Have More Workers. Now We Have to Invest in Them As trade tensions with the United States escalate, putting tens of thousands of Canadian jobs at risk, our home-grown productivity problem continues to erode the country’s economic strength. Without a change of strategy, Canada faces […]
In terms of national scores in reading, mathematics, and science among sampled students at age 15, Canada continues to rank among the top ten countries in the 2022 PISA survey.  At first glance, one might conclude all is well. However, Canada’s national trends have consistently declined since initial benchmarking of the three subjects in the […]
March 25, 2025 – While Canadian students rank among the top ten in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), there is cause for concern. A new report from the C.D. Howe Institute finds that our students’ scores in reading, mathematics, and science have been consistently slipping since initial benchmarking in the early 2000s. In […]
From: Pierre FortinTo: Labour force observersDate: March 21, 2025Re: Why More Immigration Didn’t Solve Canada’s Labour Shortages From 2015 to 2023, the federal government allowed immigration levels to increase fivefold, mostly through a significant rise in temporary immigration. By the end of 2024, Canada had three million non-permanent residents, representing 7.3 percent of the country’s population […]
Published in the Financial Post As trade tensions with the United States escalate, putting tens of thousands of Canadian jobs at risk, our home-grown productivity problem continues to erode the country’s economic strength. Without a change of strategy, Canada faces stagnating wages, declining competitiveness, slowing GDP growth and eroding living standards. Our recent labour market review for […]
According to the latest available data, many Canadian industries rely heavily on US demand, with resource-based sectors being the most exposed. In 2022, nearly half of forestry and logging jobs (49.3 percent) depended on the US market, followed closely by fishing and hunting (41.4 percent), mining and oil and gas extraction (41.0 percent), and manufacturing […]
From: Christina Caron and Glen HodgsonTo: Economy observersDate: March 11, 2025Re: The Erosion of Natural Capital and Declining Productivity Growth As we discussed yesterday, labour productivity and multifactor productivity (MFP) growth rates have been declining in advanced economies for several decades, and the decline in labour productivity growth has now extended to emerging economies. While […]
Study in Brief In 2024, Canada’s labour market showed modest growth, with job creation continuing but lagging rapid population growth. This led to an increase in the unemployment rate, reflecting a mismatch between labour force expansion and job creation rather than a decline in sector-specific labour shortages. Ongoing challenges persist, such as declining labour productivity, […]
March 11, 2025 – Canada’s labour market faces mounting pressures that cannot be fixed merely by adding more workers, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In the inaugural “2024 Labour Market Review: Challenges, Trends, and Policy Solutions for Canada,” authors Parisa Mahboubi and Tingting Zhang find that the rising unemployment rate […]
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The Study in Brief As more Canadians work past age 65 – due to longer life expectancy, the end of mandatory retirement, and the need or desire to keep working – rigid age cutoffs for long-term disability (LTD) insurance, typically set at 65, may be legally vulnerable. Although courts have upheld some age-based terminations of […] 
From: John Richards and Tingting ZhangTo: Education watchersDate: April 9, 2025Re: Time to Address Canada’s Falling Math Scores Canada’s declining K-12 education system is sending out worrying warning signals. In the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Canadian students ranked in the top 10 among OECD countries. But that doesn’t mean all is well, and the most alarming signs are in mathematics. […] 
Published in The Financial Post Canada’s declining K-12 education system is sending out worrying warning signals. In the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Canadian students ranked in the top 10 among OECD countries. But that doesn’t mean all is well, and the most alarming signs are in mathematics. Math was the only subject where Canada’s national average dropped […] 
From: Parisa Mahboubi and Tingting ZhangTo: Canadian economic observersDate: March 26, 2025Re: We Have More Workers. Now We Have to Invest in Them As trade tensions with the United States escalate, putting tens of thousands of Canadian jobs at risk, our home-grown productivity problem continues to erode the country’s economic strength. Without a change of strategy, Canada faces […] 
In terms of national scores in reading, mathematics, and science among sampled students at age 15, Canada continues to rank among the top ten countries in the 2022 PISA survey.  At first glance, one might conclude all is well. However, Canada’s national trends have consistently declined since initial benchmarking of the three subjects in the […] 
From: Pierre FortinTo: Labour force observersDate: March 21, 2025Re: Why More Immigration Didn’t Solve Canada’s Labour Shortages From 2015 to 2023, the federal government allowed immigration levels to increase fivefold, mostly through a significant rise in temporary immigration. By the end of 2024, Canada had three million non-permanent residents, representing 7.3 percent of the country’s population […] 
Published in the Financial Post As trade tensions with the United States escalate, putting tens of thousands of Canadian jobs at risk, our home-grown productivity problem continues to erode the country’s economic strength. Without a change of strategy, Canada faces stagnating wages, declining competitiveness, slowing GDP growth and eroding living standards. Our recent labour market review for […] 
According to the latest available data, many Canadian industries rely heavily on US demand, with resource-based sectors being the most exposed. In 2022, nearly half of forestry and logging jobs (49.3 percent) depended on the US market, followed closely by fishing and hunting (41.4 percent), mining and oil and gas extraction (41.0 percent), and manufacturing […] 
From: Christina Caron and Glen HodgsonTo: Economy observersDate: March 11, 2025Re: The Erosion of Natural Capital and Declining Productivity Growth As we discussed yesterday, labour productivity and multifactor productivity (MFP) growth rates have been declining in advanced economies for several decades, and the decline in labour productivity growth has now extended to emerging economies. While […]