Research & Insights

Intelligence Memos

Making Innovation a Policy Mindset

Daniel Schwanen

Innovation and Business Growth

October 28, 2026

Intelligence Memos

Will Higher Oil Prices Justify More Spending in Next Week’s Budget?

Don Drummond

Fiscal and Tax Policy

October 27, 2026

Research

A Matter of Degrees: Understanding Immigrant Skills and Labour-Market Outcomes

Parisa Mahboubi

Demographics and Immigration

October 27, 2026

Intelligence Memos

Canada’s Crazy Quilt of Mining Taxation Needs Restitching

Jack Mintz

Energy and Natural Resources, Fiscal and Tax Policy, Public Investments and Infrastructure

October 26, 2026

Intelligence Memos

Rethinking the First Pillar of Canada’s Retirement Income System

Tammy Schirle

Retirement Saving and Income

October 23, 2026

Council Reports

Bank of Canada Should Maintain Overnight Rate at 2.25 Percent in 2026, Increase to 2.75 Percent by Next October, Says C.D. Howe Institute Monetary Policy Council

Monetary Policy

October 22, 2026

Intelligence Memos

Creating a Water Utility Can Help Prevent Drowning in Rate Increases

A.J. Goulding

Public Investments and Infrastructure

October 22, 2026

Research

The Growth Imperative: The C.D. Howe Institute’s 2026 Shadow Budget

Don Drummond, Alexandre Laurin, William B.P. Robson

Fiscal and Tax Policy

October 22, 2026

Videos

Why Canada Is Falling Behind and What It Means for Your Paycheque

Jeremy Kronick

Fiscal and Tax Policy, Innovation and Business Growth, Public Investments and Infrastructure

October 21, 2026

Fiscal and Tax Policy, Innovation and Business Growth, Public Investments and Infrastructure

Why Canada Is Falling Behind and What It Means for Your Paycheque

October 21, 2026

Demographics and Immigration, Energy and Natural Resources, Monetary Policy, Public Governance and Accountability, Public Investments and Infrastructure, Trade and International Policy

Could Alberta Really Afford to Separate from Canada?

October 8, 2026

Fiscal and Tax Policy

Is Canada Heading Toward a US-Style Debt Crisis?

September 24, 2026

Energy and Natural Resources, Public Investments and Infrastructure

What Canada Needs to Do to Build Pipelines and Win Back Investor Confidence

September 10, 2026

Research & Insights

Making Innovation a Policy Mindset

Will Higher Oil Prices Justify More Spending in Next Week’s Budget?

A Matter of Degrees: Understanding Immigrant Skills and Labour-Market Outcomes

Canada’s Crazy Quilt of Mining Taxation Needs Restitching

Rethinking the First Pillar of Canada’s Retirement Income System

Bank of Canada Should Maintain Overnight Rate at 2.25 Percent in 2026, Increase to 2.75 Percent by Next October, Says C.D. Howe Institute Monetary Policy Council

Creating a Water Utility Can Help Prevent Drowning in Rate Increases

The Growth Imperative: The C.D. Howe Institute’s 2026 Shadow Budget

Why Canada Is Falling Behind and What It Means for Your Paycheque

Was the Bank of Canada’s pre-emptive strike against inflation premature?

Will the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs follow SpaceX in upending the underwriting market?

Opinion: Latest changes help but project reviews need still more certainty

Innovation is a matter of governance, not a separate strategy

The cost of a mass exodus from Alberta if it goes independent

AI might run companies soon. Corporate boards beware

Trump says Canada has ‘Big Unemployment.’ The data tell a different story

Canada wants closer EU ties. But we already have close EU ties – and they’re a mess

The 2026 federal budget must deliver stronger growth and sustainable finances: Drummond

The investment summit made the pitch, but the sale isn’t closed

Canadian financial regulators keep the bill off the books

Where Ontarians get their undergrad degrees isn’t key to early success

With launch of stock exchange, Texas completes bid to become new corporate hub of America

The Canada-US trade relationship has long operated on good faith. Donald Trump ended that

Corporate executives should have more personal liability for a company’s actions

Canada was too soft on the U.S. for too long. That was our blunder

An independent Alberta would need to negotiate its trade and treaty relationships

Buyers want houses, but housing policy keeps pushing condo shoeboxes

Fixing the broken dream of $10-a-day child care

We need to fix how we charge refugees for health care

Why Canada Is Falling Behind and What It Means for Your Paycheque

Could Alberta Really Afford to Separate from Canada?

Is Canada Heading Toward a US-Style Debt Crisis?

What Canada Needs to Do to Build Pipelines and Win Back Investor Confidence

Research & Insights

Was the Bank of Canada’s pre-emptive strike against inflation premature?

Will the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs follow SpaceX in upending the underwriting market?

Opinion: Latest changes help but project reviews need still more certainty

Innovation is a matter of governance, not a separate strategy

The cost of a mass exodus from Alberta if it goes independent

AI might run companies soon. Corporate boards beware

Trump says Canada has ‘Big Unemployment.’ The data tell a different story

Canada wants closer EU ties. But we already have close EU ties – and they’re a mess

The 2026 federal budget must deliver stronger growth and sustainable finances: Drummond

The investment summit made the pitch, but the sale isn’t closed

Canadian financial regulators keep the bill off the books

Where Ontarians get their undergrad degrees isn’t key to early success

With launch of stock exchange, Texas completes bid to become new corporate hub of America

The Canada-US trade relationship has long operated on good faith. Donald Trump ended that

Corporate executives should have more personal liability for a company’s actions

Canada was too soft on the U.S. for too long. That was our blunder

An independent Alberta would need to negotiate its trade and treaty relationships

Buyers want houses, but housing policy keeps pushing condo shoeboxes

Fixing the broken dream of $10-a-day child care

We need to fix how we charge refugees for health care

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