Economic analysis

Econ-o-Metric: The risks are rising as Canada’s borrowing binge accelerates

Kathleen Wynne’s government promised to restore fiscal balance not by raising taxes, but by cutting spending and growing the economy. How’d they do?

For the first time since oil prices crashed, strong job growth has the Bank of Canada worried about inflation, meaning higher interest rates are coming

The Bank of Canada says we won’t have a U.S.-style housing crash, but we resemble pre-crisis America in other dangerous ways

Econo-metric: There was very little not to like about Canada’s latest employment report, which saw 55,000 net new jobs created in May

Canada has committed to diversifying its global trade portfolio. The key question now is how closely to align with China’s growing influence

If American households ruined by the housing crash would have received as much attention as Wall Street, the world would be a different place today

Boost the minimum wage and you boost the economy from the bottom up, writes economist Armine Yalnizyan. That means more demand for what businesses have to sell.

We can’t read too much into a single quarter, but the period of weak growth and declining incomes appears to be over

Canada’s economy is still being driven by consumption, but there are hopeful signs that businesses are finally starting to invest again