<time datetime="2018-04-17T00:00:01-04:00">April 17, 2018</time>

Ontario should scrap arbitrary and opaque density bonusing deals between municipalities and developers, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In Buildings with Benefits: The…

<time datetime="2016-10-12T00:01:00-04:00">October 12, 2016</time>

For cities across Canada, amalgamation has produced few economies of scale and greatly undermined local autonomy, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Thinking Regionally:…

<time datetime="2015-11-18T00:00:55-05:00">November 18, 2015</time>
<time datetime="2015-07-23T11:46:38-04:00">July 23, 2015</time>

The government of Ontario should make individual producers responsible for recycled products while permitting them to achieve recycling goals as they see fit, according to a new C.D. Howe…

<time datetime="2014-01-15T14:45:31-05:00">January 15, 2014</time>

Opaque budgeting methods and financial reports in Canada’s major cities baffle councilors and taxpayers, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Baffling Budgets: The…

<time datetime="2012-10-11T13:45:47-04:00">October 11, 2012</time>

Toronto’s Land Transfer Tax (LTT) has had a significant impact on home sales and household mobility in the city over the longer term, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe…

Op-Ed
The latest C.D. Howe Institute annual report card on municipal financial reporting in Canada featured a dismal coincidence. Regina and Saskatoon had the worst grades among the 31 cities whose budgets…
Intelligence Memos
From: William B.P. Robson To: Canadian Debt Watchers Date: February 25, 2021 Re: Provincial Debts and Federal Bailouts – It’s Complicated When COVID-19 crashed the economy last spring…
Intelligence Memos
From: William B.P. Robson To: Canadians Contemplating 2021 Date: January 5, 2021 Re: Let’s Drop the ‘We Can’t Go Back’ Post-COVID Fantasies Of all the COVID-inspired clichés of 2020, “…