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In the Tuesday, April 22, 2008, edition of the Edmonton Journal, reporter Eric Beauchesne discusses a report released recently by the C.D. Howe Institute. Written by fellow-in-residence David Laidler, the report states that Canada's balance of risks is tipped toward an inflation undershoot, in the absence of further monetary easing by the Bank of Canada . President and CEO of the C.D. Howe…

The Thursday, May 22, 2008 edition of the Toronto Star features an opinion piece co-authored by William Robson, President and CEO and Ben Dachis, Policy Analyst at the C.D. Howe Institute, which discusses the city of Toronto’s recently gained revenue raising powers. Robson and Dachis state that the city's proposed tax grant plan for selected industries involves using the Planning Act to…

Ontario and Alberta will soon dramatically increase their minimum wages to $15 an hour. Unfortunately, these fast and sizable minimum-wage increases are likely going to reduce employment and increase poverty, particularly for the low-income families that the governments are seeking to help. The Ontario government introduced legislation on June 1 to raise its minimum wage from $11.40 an hour to $…

Published in the Ottawa Citizen on April 22, 2011 By David Dodge and Richard Dion As societies become richer, they tend to accommodate the rising demands and expectations of their citizens for more and better-quality health-care services. The value that citizens place on preserving and extending a good-quality life becomes more important as their consumption of other goods and services expands…

Published in the Globe & Mail on March 20, 2013 By Finn Poschmann Every once in a while, budget day brings something truly big that people fail to appreciate until much later. Something big happened with Canadians’ savings in the 2009 budget, when tax-free savings accounts appeared. The change has repercussions that will reverberate, mostly to the good, for generations to come and will…

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…