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Resetting Expectations: Canada’s Economy in a Lower-Immigration Era

Don Drummond, Parisa Mahboubi
  • Demographics and Immigration, Education, Skills and Labour Market
  • Intelligence Memos

The Tough Choices That Loom Over Our New 5-Percent Defence Target 

Colin Busby, Nicholas Dahir
  • Fiscal and Tax Policy, Trade and International Policy
  • Intelligence Memos

How to Escape US Dollar Domination in Canada’s Digital Finance Future

Peter MacKenzie, Mark Zelmer
  • Financial Services and Regulation
  • Videos

$25 Billion? Canada’s New Sovereign Wealth Fund Explained

Kate Koplovich
  • Fiscal and Tax Policy
  • Podcasts

$25 Billion? Canada’s New Sovereign Wealth Fund Explained

Kate Koplovich
  • Fiscal and Tax Policy
  • Intelligence Memos

Administering that 6.1% Tariff for Chinese Electric Vehicle Imports 

Brian Livingston
  • Trade and International Policy
  • Intelligence Memos

Not Enough Deficit Discipline in the Update, the Fall Budget Must Get Serious

Colin Busby, Nicholas Dahir, Kate Koplovich
  • Fiscal and Tax Policy
  • Intelligence Memos

Affordable but Unavailable: National Childcare’s Supply Crisis 

Parisa Mahboubi, Tingting Zhang
  • Education, Skills and Labour Market
  • Intelligence Memos

Flood and Fires: It’s (Still) Time for Some Insurance Plans

Glen Hodgson
  • Financial Services and Regulation
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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
Opinions & Editorials

Canada needs a nation-building roadmap, not just ambition
Tasnim Fariha, David Jones
Public Investments and Infrastructure
April 2, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Why a tax credit could be the key to closing Canada’s retirement coverage gap
Keith Ambachtsheer, Alex Mazer
Fiscal and Tax Policy
March 26, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Don’t let the foreign investment numbers fool you
Mawakina Bafale, Peter MacKenzie, William B.P. Robson
Innovation and Business Growth
March 24, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Uncertainty reigns for Bank of Canada as Iran war rages
Steve Ambler, Jeremy Kronick
Business Cycle
March 18, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Should retail investors really get access to private markets?
Edward J. Waitzer, Rachel Wasserman
Financial Services and Regulation
March 12, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Canada needs big-bang tax reform, not more tax tweaks
Nicholas Dahir, Alexandre Laurin, Jack Mintz
Fiscal and Tax Policy
March 5, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Let’s just buy the F-35s and not cut off our nose to spite our face
Christopher Worswick
Public Investments and Infrastructure
February 26, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Canada has a hidden asylum-policy problem
James Yousif
Demographics and Immigration
February 17, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

We need two-track regulation of digital trading and money
Peter MacKenzie, Mark Zelmer
Financial Services and Regulation
February 12, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Trump’s bridge threat heralds pain and turmoil in USMCA talks
Lawrence Herman
Trade and International Policy
February 11, 2026
Opinions & Editorials

Quebec’s centrally planned health care is failing
Tingting Zhang
Health Policy
February 10, 2026
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