Economic analysisA cure for Canada’s economic amnesiaA new project aims to resurrect long-forgotten Canadian economic data from the statistical dust bin. It’s about time.
Economic analysisBusiness investment hasn’t been this crummy in 40 yearsCanadian companies remain nervous about the future, meaning the decline in business investment is unlikely to improve any time soon.
CanadaThe census is back with a swaggerThe best advertisement for the long-form version may have been its demise. Cue an early stampede of responses.
Economic analysisWhat new job numbers tell us about Canada’s economy in 2015About the best thing that can be said about Canada’s job numbers over the last year is that they could have been worse
Economic analysisThe decline of the Alberta dream, in one chartYou have to go back nearly 30 years to find a time when the unemployment rate in Alberta was this close to the Canadian average
OttawaInterview: Wayne Smith on the return of the long-form censusStatistics Canada chief Wayne Smith: ’I was incredibly surprised at the passion the [long-form] issue has given rise to’
Economic analysisWhy it’s not enough to simply restore the long-form censusBringing back the long-form census was the easy part. If this government is serious about data, there is a lot more it should do.
Economic analysisThe tidal wave of seniors has to be seen to be understoodAs much as we’ve talked about Canada’s aging population, it’s hard to appreciate it without seeing it in action
CanadaMapped: 10 years of unprecedented change in Canada’s citiesCanada’s cities have seen a decade of huge demographic change, creating challenges for anyone looking to understand how we live, work, and think
Economic analysisCanada’s population is getting older faster than we thoughtThe bad news about our greying population in Statistics Canada’s revised labour force survey data