Characteristics of recessions -- The recession of 1948-49 -- The recession of 1953-54 -- The recession of 1957-58 -- The recession of 1960-61 -- The recession of 1969-70 -- The recession of 1973-75 -- The recession of 1980 -- The recession of 1981-82 -- The recession of 1990-91 -- The recession...

"Despite Canada's economic success over the past thirty years, the country's ranking in productivity has continued to decline when compared to other industrialized nations. Economic experts and pundits repeatedly call for means of improving productivity, arguing that it is the lynchpin to...