Economic analysis

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.

A list of who the Finance Minister invited to his policy confab

The claim that Keystone will lead to lower oil prices and thus higher consumptions is based on a faulty model

An effort to significantly reduce global CO2 emissions would likely cause the price of oil to fall, and with it, oil sands development.