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Media Release
May 7 – The fight against money laundering in Canada will require tougher measures that shine a light on the perpetrators who now operate in the shadows, says a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Why We Fail to Catch Money Launderers 99.9 percent of the Time,” author Kevin Comeau supports the creation of a publicly accessible registry of beneficial ownership, and mandatory declarations…
Intelligence Memos
From: Glen Hodgson
To: Canadians interested in sustainable finance
Date: November 20, 2019
Re: Creating a policy framework for sustainable green finance
Action on green finance is taking place in many places and in many directions, but there are still many gaps, with no coherent policy framework in place. What would such a framework look like?
The expert panel on sustainable or…
Intelligence Memos
To: Ross Romano, Ontario Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities
From: Charles M. Beach and Frank Milne
Date: November 14, 2019
Re: Making Ontario’s Colleges and Universities Decide on their Mission
One of the strengths of the US post-secondary education (PSE) system is the great variation across different schools and the great range of opportunities available to students…
Op-Ed
For Canadians concerned about national finances, the 2019 federal election campaign has been a double whammy. Personal smears and social-media mobbing have mostly eclipsed substance. And the discussions of budgetary policy that have cut through the noise have been discouraging. Especially the commitments for more and bigger deficits: even more red ink in the next four years than was spilled in…
Intelligence Memos
To: Toronto Taxpayers
From: William B.P. Robson
Date: March 14, 2019
Re: Toronto’s Farcical Budget Cycle – Around We Go Again
Last week’s fanfare about Toronto’s council passing the city’s 2019 budget was farcical on several levels. One – perhaps too obvious to attract much comment – was that it happened in March: with two months of the year already past, the city has already raised and spent…
Intelligence Memos
From: Tammy Schirle
To: Canadians concerned about the gender pay gap
Date: March 8, 2019
Re: The varying size of the gender pay gap
How big is the wage gap between men and women? It depends on who, specifically, you are talking about, and why you ask.
In January 2019, Canadian women working full time between the ages of 25 and 54 earned an hourly wage that, on average, was…
