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No single reform will fix our productivity problem – it’s a puzzle with many pieces

Charles Lammam
  • Public Governance and Accountability
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Stability Yes, But Not to the Exclusion of All Else, Please

Gherardo Caracciolo
  • Financial Services and Regulation
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Digital Health, Clinical AI and the Trade War

Will Falk
  • Health Policy, Innovation and Business Growth
  • Intelligence Memos

Improving Canada’s Pension System: Past Accomplishments and Future Challenges

Keith Ambachtsheer
  • Retirement Saving and Income
  • Intelligence Memos

Canada’s Bond Market Has a Message for Washington

Mawakina Bafale, Peter MacKenzie
  • Fiscal and Tax Policy, Public Governance and Accountability
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Beyond the Headlines: Where Canada’s Household Debt Problem Lies

Mawakina Bafale, Peter MacKenzie
  • Financial Services and Regulation, Housing, Monetary Policy, Retirement Saving and Income
  • Intelligence Memos

Time for Federal Fiscal Bravery: The Status Quo Cannot Hold

Don Drummond
  • Fiscal and Tax Policy
  • Intelligence Memos

Extending Capital-Gains Relief to Donations of Private-Company Shares and Real Estate

Vahan Kololian
  • Fiscal and Tax Policy
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Could Alberta Really Afford to Separate from Canada?

The Honourable Jason Kenney PC, ECA, Charles St-Arnaud
  • Demographics and Immigration, Energy and Natural Resources, Monetary Policy, Public Governance and Accountability, Public Investments and Infrastructure, Trade and International Policy
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Innovation is a matter of governance, not a separate strategy
Daniel Schwanen
Innovation and Business Growth
October 20, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

The cost of a mass exodus from Alberta if it goes independent
Christopher Worswick
October 15, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

AI might run companies soon. Corporate boards beware
Douglas Sarro, Edward J. Waitzer
Innovation and Business Growth
October 1, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Trump says Canada has ‘Big Unemployment.’ The data tell a different story
Mikal Skuterud
Education, Skills and Labour Market
September 23, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Canada wants closer EU ties. But we already have close EU ties – and they’re a mess
Lawrence Herman
Trade and International Policy
September 22, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

The 2026 federal budget must deliver stronger growth and sustainable finances: Drummond
Don Drummond
Fiscal and Tax Policy
September 21, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

The investment summit made the pitch, but the sale isn’t closed
Mawakina Bafale, William B.P. Robson
Public Investments and Infrastructure
September 17, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Canadian financial regulators keep the bill off the books
Gherardo Caracciolo
Financial Services and Regulation
September 8, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Where Ontarians get their undergrad degrees isn’t key to early success
Roger Pizarro Milian
Education, Skills and Labour Market
September 3, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

With launch of stock exchange, Texas completes bid to become new corporate hub of America
Ari Pandes, L. Daniel Wilson
Innovation and Business Growth
August 27, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

The Canada-US trade relationship has long operated on good faith. Donald Trump ended that
Lawrence Herman
Trade and International Policy
August 27, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Corporate executives should have more personal liability for a company’s actions
Edward J. Waitzer, Elie Waitzer
Public Governance and Accountability
August 26, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Canada was too soft on the U.S. for too long. That was our blunder
Lawrence Herman
Trade and International Policy
August 26, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

An independent Alberta would need to negotiate its trade and treaty relationships
Lawrence Herman
Trade and International Policy
August 19, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Buyers want houses, but housing policy keeps pushing condo shoeboxes
Frank Clayton
Housing
August 13, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Fixing the broken dream of $10-a-day child care
Parisa Mahboubi, Tingting Zhang
Demographics and Immigration
August 10, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

We need to fix how we charge refugees for health care
Tingting Zhang
Health Policy
August 4, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Can fixing development charges fix Canada’s housing crisis?
Andrew Sancton
Housing
July 30, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

The most important capital markets news last week was the one few noticed
Ari Pandes
Financial Services and Regulation
July 30, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Canada’s CUSMA problem is a productivity problem
Parisa Mahboubi, Tingting Zhang
Business Cycle
July 23, 2026
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