Economy

From the archives: What Wal-Mart’s annual reports from the mid-1990s can tell us about Target’s ill-fated Canadian expansion

A new crop of cheap carriers is coming to shake up Air Canada and WestJet’s duopoly—but it’s unclear if that’ll work this time around

Statistics Canada is still refusing to discuss exactly what went wrong with its jobs numbers last month, or why nobody noticed it...

Statistics Canada adds thousands of new jobs in Ontario and Quebec. The public sector and teachers get a big boost

It risks diminishing any goodwill garnered through your previous actions, as the optics of this event are unquestionably negative

Summer vacation wreaks havoc with our employment data

Government stimulus plans in Canada have a history of getting rapidly off track

The problem of missing and incomplete data at Statistics Canada goes far deeper than that botched labour report

Econ 101 shows that blocking Keystone only matters to oil sands production if rail can’t pick up the slack

Despite disappointing job growth, Canada seems to be doing pretty well on the global unemployment front.