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Op-Ed
Published in the Toronto Star on May 15, 2015
By Åke Blomqvist and Colin Busby
Åke Blomqvist is an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University and Health Policy Scholar at the C.D. Howe Institute, where Colin Busby is a Senior Policy Analyst.
Ontario’s minister of health, Eric Hoskins, announced plans this week for change in the province’s home and community care programs,…
Op-Ed
Published in the National Post on April 16, 2015
By: William Robson
William Robson is is president of the C.D. Howe Institute and coauthor, with Colin Busby, of By the Numbers: The Fiscal Accountability of Canada’s Senior Governments, 2015.
Get past its circus-like quality, and the fuss over Senate expenses — Nancy Ruth’s airline breakfast; Mike Duffy’s principal residence — …
Op-Ed
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, completed and announced just two months ago, is broad-ranging, opaque for many, and complex like most international trade agreements.
For Canada, the deal involving 11 of our trading partners will be good on balance, albeit it will have negative—or potentially negative—impacts on several sectors or sub-sectors on the Canadian economy.
The…
Op-Ed
By Stephen Gordon
Most people probably think of the debate over whether Canada is in a recession as one of those glass-half-full versus glass-half-empty things. Pessimists look at five months of declining GDP and call it a “recession,” while optimists look at increasing employment and say that we’re not in a recession. Yet, the real pessimists are the ones saying we’re not in recession.
Making…