<time datetime="2016-11-24T00:01:00-05:00">November 24, 2016</time>

Annual budgets in most of Canada’s major cities are a mess – excluding key activities, using inconsistent accounting, burying crucial numbers where only experts can find them, and often voted well…

<time datetime="2016-04-11T10:43:44-04:00">April 11, 2016</time>

Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial governments have cumulatively spent $69 billion more than budgeted over the past 15 years, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In “…

<time datetime="2015-11-18T00:00:55-05:00">November 18, 2015</time>
<time datetime="2015-10-14T10:28:01-04:00">October 14, 2015</time>

Revenues from First Nations business activities have grown substantially over the last generation. In Ontario, they now comprise nearly one third of First Nation government funds. Where does the…

<time datetime="2015-05-07T18:07:51-04:00">May 7, 2015</time>

The unfunded liability in the pension plans for federal government employees was $90 billion higher than the reported number in 2013/14, says a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Ottawa’…

<time datetime="2015-04-16T18:12:28-04:00">April 16, 2015</time>
Intelligence Memos
From: William B.P. Robson and Miles Wu To: Municipal Councillors and Ratepayers Date: February 1, 2021 Re: It’s the End of January – Do You Know Where Your City’s Budget Is? Municipal budgets produce…
Intelligence Memos
From: Don Drummond  To: Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland Date: January 26, 2021 Re: Should $70 to $100 Billion of Fiscal Stimulus Be Used, and on What? Ottawa’s Fall Fiscal…
Intelligence Memos
From: Marcel Boyer  To: Canada’s Debt Watchers Date: January 7, 2021 Re: The Pervasive Economic Error in Assessing the Cost of Public Funds In the assessment of the cost of…