Canadian provinces should be concerned about slipping high-school students’ scores – in reading, science and mathematics – as assessed by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), according a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Warning Signs for Canadian...

While Canada has made progress in the past two decades in terms of lowering high-school dropout rates, those rates remain unacceptably high for boys and certain groups limited by poverty or other factors. In this paper, the author warns that the male share of the dropout population continues to...

Canada’s Minister of International Trade, David Emerson, heralded a free trade agreement with the European Free Trade Association in June by saying “Canada is back in the game.” In July, the government announced talks on free trade with Colombia, Peru and CARICOM (the Caribbean Community)....

To encourage new growth in the Canadian economy, the Bank of Canada should be actively irrigating financial markets with a growing money supply. Recovery needs support from the continued credibility of the Bank’s 2 percent inflation target – but there are signs that this credibility is...

When trouble in the US housing market this past summer bubbled into problems in credit markets around the world, central banks took action. In a partially successful effort to keep those markets functioning smoothly, several central banks, including the Bank of Canada, took special steps to...

Recent foreign takeovers of significant companies, including Alcan, Falconbridge, Inco, and Four Seasons Hotels, have grabbed Canadians’ attention, raising fresh worries over whether Canada is being “hollowed out.” Does the pace of foreign direct investment threaten our economic independence?