NORTHERN ECONOMIST 2.0

  If tomorrow indeed brings the onset of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian exports, there will be an impact ...

  Well, it is nearly year’s end and for Thunder Bay, time for a retrospective on economic things past as well as a brief l...

  Technological change has been the chief contributor to economic growth since the industrial revolution. Yet, technologic...

 This post originally appeared in the Fraser Institute Blog .   Ontario’s future as dynamic economy in doubt—if employmen...

  Having returned from a great visit to Ireland, I have been reflecting on the Irish economy and economic miracle that hav...

 This post originally appeared in the Fraser Institute Blog . A spectre is stalking Ontario, and it’s the spectre of decline. For most of p...

I was invited to make a contribution on Canada's economy and its future by TheFutureEconomy.ca which is an online media outlet "tha...

  As 2023 winds down and 2024 arrives, a retrospective combined with a look ahead on the economy is a timely exercise.   T...

  Finance Minister Bethlenfalvy released Ontario’s fall 2023 fiscal and economic update and a perusal of the numbers tells...

 When it comes to employment growth, the Canadian and Ontario economies are still growing relatively robustly despite nearly a year of Bank ...

  The Conference Board of Canada has issued its March 2023 Metropolitan outlooks for Thunder Bay and Greater Sudbury and t...

Last post, we looked at Ontario’s population and in particular its concentration in the GTA and what I termed the GTAPlus or "The Polyg...