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From: Benjamin Dachis, Aaron Jacobs and Ramya Muthukumaran To: The Hon. Minister Glenn Thibeault, Ontario Minister of Energy Date: September 12th, 2016 Re: Why is Ontario’s Electricity Now More Expensive than its Neighbour’s? This week’s throne speech focused on getting the cost of electricity down. It’s now your job to figure out how. A comparison of Ontario prices to our neighbours in…

Ed Clark, outgoing Group President and CEO of TD Bank Group, is the Chair of the Ontario Premier's Advisory Council on Government Assets. The Council has been asked to look at options to generate better returns and revenues from the LCBO, Hydro One and Ontario Power Generation. Over the past six months, the Council has delved into the operations of the three companies, met with their boards and…

Friday December 9, 2011 Toronto Roundtable Event - Standard & Poor's: Changes to the rating process and the regulatory environment in the wake of the financial crisis Map and Directions | Register Mark Adelson is the Chief Credit Officer of Standard & Poor's. He is responsible for all of S&P's rating criteria for all types of ratings. He joined S&P in May 2008. Before joining S…

Canadian provincial healthcare systems fare poorly compared to peer countries according to new research from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Reality Bites: How Canada’s Healthcare System Compares to its International Peers,” authors Colin Busby, Ramya Muthukaran and Aaron Jacobs examine how the provinces, the major healthcare deliverers in Canada, fare compared to other nations in healthcare…

Canada’s greying workforce will spell big fiscal trouble for future taxpayers, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In “The Fiscal Implications of Canadians’ Working Longer,” authors William Robson, Colin Busby, and Aaron Jacobs find that demographic change is squeezing the budgets of Canadian governments—increasing the costs of public programs and eroding the tax base as the growth in…