I will be visiting the Thunder Bay Campus of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine on January 26th to give a seminar in the Human Science Seminar Series. My talk will overview trends in health spending in Canada over the longer-term and provide some recent estimates of aggregate value for money from this spending. Looking forward to the visit.
Northern Economist 2.0
Monday 23 January 2017
Friday 20 January 2017
Economic News Around the North: January 20th, Edition
Here is a listing of some stories around northern Ontario
over the last few days of economic significance for the region. Congratulations to Thunder Bay International Airport and Laurentian University for their milestones. Enjoy.
Thunder Bay Airport Sets New Passenger Record, Tbnewswatch, January 16, 2017.
Laurentian celebrates official opening of School of Architecture, sudbury.com, January 19th, 2017
Sudbury businesses question if labour law changes are necessary. Northern Ontario Business, January 16, 2017.
Carbon bill hits city hall. Chronicle-Journal, January 16, 2017.
Good news for Sudbury on jobs front. Sudbury Star, January 13th, 2017.
Energy costs continue to be a concern across the north. SooToday, January 18, 2017.
FedNor invests $460,000 into Nipissing, Parry Sound, Muskoka economy. NorthBayNipissing.com, January 19, 2017.
NWO First Nations drop injunction bid against pipeline work. Tbnewswatch, January 19, 2017.
Thursday 19 January 2017
Employment Growth Strongest in Ontario’s Golden Triangle: How the Major CMAs Stack Up
Employment is always an important indicator of economic
growth and success and the figure below provides a good perspective on how some
of Ontario’s major centers are doing when it comes to job creation. Employment data from Statistics Canada
is used to compare total employment growth between 2001 and 2016 for 15 major
CMAs. These major CMAs are ranked
from highest to lowest and their employment growth ranges from a high of 38.8
percent for Oshawa to a low of -2.4 percent for Thunder Bay.
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