Economic analysis

The Harper government’s new boutique tax credit makes it better for some companies to fire workers or cut their pay than to hire new ones

Hard as it may be to see now, the changes underway in Mexico offer huge opportunities for Canada, writes Jason Kirby

Reducing payroll taxes, like EI premiums, is good policy. Too bad that’s not what the Harper government chose to do.

A new Conservative ad says ’We’re better off with Harper.’ It’s an awful talking point, but here are the numbers to put the claim to the test.

Despite the concerns of some very well-respected economists, Statistics Canada’s job numbers are sound.

Why should a fast food worker in downtown Toronto make the same as one in Northern Ontario?

A deal to save jobs may have put the province on the hook for huge environmental liabilities at a refinery in Come By Chance

We’ll know soon enough if another mistake has been made, but the new jobs report fits with the slump that’s been underway for months

Just how committed would the NDP be to free-speaking bureaucrats?

And there’s one huge factor that could derail this trade recovery