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  • Intelligence Memos

How Much Do Canada’s Workers Want, And Value, Employer Pensions?

Benoit Dostie, Todd Morris
  • Financial Services and Regulation
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Bank of Canada Should Maintain Overnight Rate at 2.25 Percent for Next Six Months, Increase to 2.5 Percent by Next July, Says C.D. Howe Institute Monetary Policy Council

  • Monetary Policy
  • Intelligence Memos

Open Banking Without a Scoreboard

Harvey Naglie
  • Financial Services and Regulation
  • Intelligence Memos

How to Make OSFI Even Better 

Mawakina Bafale, Jamey Hubbs
  • Financial Services and Regulation
  • Research

Finish the Job: Completing Canada’s Capital Markets Reform Agenda

Paul Bourque, Douglas M. Hyndman
  • Financial Services and Regulation
  • Intelligence Memos

How to Refine the Bank of Canada’s Communication Strategy 

Steve Ambler, Thorsten Koeppl, Jeremy Kronick
  • Monetary Policy
  • Intelligence Memos

Assessing West Coast Pipeline Commercial Viability  

Dmitriy Frolovskiy
  • Energy and Natural Resources
  • Intelligence Memos

Beyond the Terminal: A Policy Agenda for Canadian Tipping Culture

Mawakina Bafale
  • Retirement Saving and Income
  • Intelligence Memos

Trump’s Free Trade Distaste is More Than a Bargaining Ploy

Lawrence Herman
  • Trade and International Policy
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OSFI would do a good job even better with a board model
Mawakina Bafale, Jamey Hubbs
Financial Services and Regulation
July 9, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

‘Fortress North America’ is a bad idea in service of a bad deal
Lawrence Herman
Trade and International Policy
July 9, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Communicating about inflation: the Bank of Canada’s conundrum
Steve Ambler, Thorsten Koeppl, Jeremy Kronick
Monetary Policy
July 2, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Canada’s debt crisis will come from Washington
Martin Eichenbaum
Public Governance and Accountability
June 25, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

North American free trade is gone, dead and buried
Lawrence Herman
Trade and International Policy
June 25, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Canada must resist the seduction of more borrowing and rising debt
Nicholas Dahir, Don Drummond
Monetary Policy
June 24, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Is your house your pension? The problem at the heart of the intergenerational divide
Colin Busby, John Stapleton
Housing
June 11, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

The Bank of Canada was right to hold rates, but where to from here?
Steve Ambler, Jeremy Kronick
Monetary Policy
June 11, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Canada has done this before. It’s time to do it again
Blake C. Goldring, C.M., O.Ont, M.S.M., CD, CFA
Public Investments and Infrastructure
June 4, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

If we’re oil-rich, why is gasoline so expensive?
G. Kent Fellows
Energy and Natural Resources
May 22, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

No ‘down payment’ on USMCA. Here’s what to offer instead
Daniel Schwanen
Trade and International Policy
May 21, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Ottawa’s fiscal guardrail is driving us toward the cliff
Nicholas Dahir, Don Drummond, William B.P. Robson
Fiscal and Tax Policy
May 5, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Opinion: Automatic tax filing will need more work
Alexandre Laurin
Fiscal and Tax Policy
April 30, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Whither the future of the ESG movement?
Edward J. Waitzer
Energy and Natural Resources
April 30, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Why Canada’s supply management system is going to disappear
Lawrence Herman
Industry Regulation and Competition Policy
April 30, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

The $25-billion sovereign wealth fund is not enough for Canada’s investment challenges
Colin Busby, Kate Koplovich, Alexandre Laurin
Fiscal and Tax Policy
April 29, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

With war, trade woes and a shrinking population, the Bank of Canada was right to hold rates
Steve Ambler, Jeremy Kronick
Monetary Policy
April 29, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Fiscal fantasy: Believe it or not, fiscal reality hasn’t gone away
Don Drummond, Alexandre Laurin, William B.P. Robson
Fiscal and Tax Policy
April 23, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Getting the job done on bolstering Canada’s defence requires difficult financial decisions
Colin Busby, Nicholas Dahir
Public Investments and Infrastructure
April 23, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Why Canada needs a digital dollar
Peter MacKenzie, Mark Zelmer
Financial Services and Regulation
April 20, 2026
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