To: Canadian real estate watchers
From: Ed Devlin, Thomas Rowlands and Parisa Mahboubi
Date: August 16, 2021
Re: Immigration remains the key to housing prices
Canada’s housing market is among the hottest in the world.
From: Don Drummond, Duncan Sinclair and Philipp Gladkov
To: Canadians concerned about healthcare
Date: August 13, 2021
Re: Reach for the Healthcare Podium
Healthcare's goals are two-fold. Treating people to help them recover from ill-health, injury, and disability has been the predominant focus since the establishment of medicare as a key component of Canada’s social safety net.
From: Don Drummond
To: Canadian debt watchers
Date: August 11, 2021
Re: It’s 2035. Do you know where your deficit is?
As the Liberal government in Ottawa starts ramping up for the big October 19 celebration of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s 20 years in power, fiscal storm clouds loom.
Canada Needs a Broader Vision of Healthcare
August 10, 2021 – Canada needs a broader vision of healthcare that balances restoring health, the current focus, with promoting health, according to a working paper released by the C.D. Howe Institute.
In “Best in Health: Creating a Comprehensive Health Information Ecosystem,” authors Don Drummond, Duncan Sinclair and Philipp Gladkov discuss how this balance can be corrected, while consolidating Canada's fragmented health data and information.
Bank of Canada has loosened policy over the past six weeks – Globe and Mail Op-Ed
On Wednesday, the Bank of Canada left its target for the overnight rate at 25 basis points while scaling back its quantitative easing (QE) program, reducing the pace of its purchases of Government of Canada debt from $3-billion a week to $2-billion. Lifting its foot off the QE pedal is warranted given recent inflation readings and other underlying metrics.
Annual Report on Giving - 2020
Submitted by nancy.schlomer onMay 25, 2020 - Ottawa and the provinces need to recommit to fiscal and monetary anchors in light of the unprecedented stimulus response provided by all levels of government and the Bank of Canada throughout the COVID-19 crisis. While fiscal anchors, such as debt-to-GDP ratios, were necessarily set aside to finance support programs to cope with the economic shutdown, measures to stabilize finances and restore fiscal sustainability in the medium to long-run are critical.
Annual Report on Giving - 2019
Submitted by nancy.schlomer onFrom: Grant Bishop
To: City of Calgary, and Calgary 2026
Date: November 9, 2018
Re: Should Calgary go for Olympic gold?
On Tuesday, Calgarians will go to the polls for a plebiscite on whether to bid to host the 2026 Olympics. We face a discrete and well-defined choice: The City of Calgary and Calgary 2026 (the city’s bid corporation) have provided clear funding commitments and a rigorously costed hosting plan.