NORTHERN ECONOMIST 2.0

  Municipal public finances are always of interest to the average city resident given that municipalities are the level of...

  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...

 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...

  It is municipal budget season in Ontario and many municipal ratepayers across the province are waking up to projections ...

 Labor markets are at the forefront in terms of current policy issues given the shortages that are plaguing so many sectors in Canada's ...

  If the June 2022 Labour Force Survey is part of a trend, Canada’s labour shortage issues are going to be getting worse....

  Ontario’s economy over the last decade has seen the GTA-Waterloo-Barrie triangle as the province's employment growth...

  With each passing day, the new COVID-19 case count has been diminishing in Ontario.   Today’s tally was 114 and there we...

 Statistics Canada's April 2021 Labour Force survey results show the employment effects of the third wave lock-downs in Canada and Onta...

  Like just about everywhere else in the world, Ontario was hit hard by the job losses that resulted from the assorted loc...

  The Covid-19 pandemic has come with a huge cost in terms of employment loss with the retail, food and accommodation, and...