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Op-Ed
Published in the National Post on February 23, 2015
By: Åke Blomqvist, Colin Busby and Aaron Jacobs
Åke Blomqvist is an adjunct research professor at Carleton University and a health policy scholar at the C.D. Howe Institute. Colin Busby is a senior policy analyst and Aaron Jacobs is a research intern with the C.D. Howe Institute.
With negotiations between the Ontario Medical…
Op-Ed
By Daniel Schwanen and Aaron Jacobs
Visitors to Manitoba, in the heart of Canada, are lucky to experience the province's unique and intimate blend of nature and industry, culture and industry, learning and relaxation. And they will also, quite uniquely, encounter frequent, large and colourful advertisement alongside roads, urging consumers to recycle their beverage containers. They are…
Op-Ed
Published in the Telegraph-Journal on January 16, 2015
By: William Robson, Colin Busby, and Aaron Jacobs
Colin Busby William Robson and Aaron Jacobs are all part of the C.D. Howe Institute.
New Brunswick may be the Canadian province that has shown the most willingness to face up to its demographic challenges. Reforming pensions is never easy, but New Brunswick’s recent…
Op-Ed
By Finn Poschmann and Aaron Jacobs
The Bank of Canada should improve its inflation analyses to better account for costs such as housing
Since spring 2009, consumer prices as measured by Statistics Canada’s all-items consumer price index, have gone up by about 12 per cent.
That means that over the long haul, the Bank of Canada seems to have done a pretty good job of hitting the 2 per cent annual…
Op-Ed
In recent years, municipal employees’ wage growth has constantly outpaced other unionized sectors. Since wages, salaries and benefits make up more than half of the operating expenditure for most municipalities in Canada, ever-growing municipal wages are putting pressure on local public finances.
The evidence of fast-growing municipal employees’ wages can be found in the comprehensive…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on December 5, 2014
By: Ben Dachis
Ben Dachis is a senior policy analyst at the C.D. Howe Institute.
We are surrounded by innovations made by Canadians. We invented canola oil, alkaline batteries and snowmobiles. Such innovations are at the heart of our economy. But where in Canada are the innovators of today? New data shows that we need to rethink old stories of…
