The Mowat Centre final report on Employment Insurance (EI) released today has won a fair bit of media attention, and will serve to deepen the national debate…

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It is no secret that times of  high unemployment and precarious work are especially tough for new and recent entrants to the job market, notably…

The advanced economies, including Canada, risk falling back into recession because of government spending cuts and a looming financial crisis. The IMF now forecasts that…

TD Economics yesterday released a rather gloomy report, putting the odds of a US recession at 40%, and arguing that that Canadian economy is more vulnerable…

Allow me to indulge myself just this once.  Almost exactly one month ago I wrote a post on the Progressive Economics blog  arguing that the Bank of…

A column by Nobel Prize winning economist Joe Stiglitz in the Financial Times makes what I think is an important point. The current debate over fiscal policy…

The Great Recession was followed by an anaemic recovery in the advanced economies, which threatens to be followed by a double dip or worse now…

Today’s Statscan release “Incomes of Canadians” provides data for 2009 and a partial reading on the impacts of the recession. (I say partial because the 2008 annual…

Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak has promised to introduce what the Toronto Star calls “modern day chain gangs.” “The Progressive Conservative leader said Thursday that if a Tory government…

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