Economic analysis

Opinion: Conservatives often get accused, wrongly, of not caring for the poor, but when it comes to Andrew Scheer’s support for supply management, it’s true

Opinion: The NAFTA talks represent a crucial opportunity to address and assert Canada’s needs on e-commerce, intellectual property rights, and more

Econ-o-metric: GDP soars 4.5% in second quarter, boosting interest rate hike expectations further

The payoff to government coffers from the new plan is going to be lower than the $500 million that was expected, experts say

Econ-o-metric: Canadian arguments about balanced trade with the U.S. don’t matter to Trump. His NAFTA logic says deficits are for losers, full stop.

When central bankers dropped interest rates during the financial crisis, finance ministers leaned too hard on household debt. That trend may finally be changing.

Econ-o-metrics: Don’t make too much of one month of slightly hotter inflation, but the trend bolsters Bank of Canada’s outlook

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer couldn’t find too many redeeming qualities of the trade deal on the books. Watch for tough negotiations to follow.

Canada is building fewer single-family homes and pricing young people out of their communities—the sort of housing inequality could take us down a dangerous path

Opinion: He can start by being transparent about how much high-income Canadians actually pay in taxes and receive in government transfers