labour productivity

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Business investment key to addressing Canada’s productivity crisis

Canada’s GDP per hour worked—a key measure of productivity growth—is among the lowest in the OECD.


4:28PM
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Federal budget fails to ‘break the glass’ on Canada’s economic growth crisis

Per-person GDP, a common indicator of living standards, now sits below where it was at the end of 2014.


2:30AM
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Federal government should tackle Canada’s productivity crisis in upcoming budget

When per-person GDP increases by 2 per cent a year, average income doubles within 35 years.


8:44AM
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Technology is largely neutral, but users are not

While ChatGPT and Google can help us gather information, neither should be accepted uncritically and without review.


8:58AM
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Possibility of four-day workweek fading as economic growth prospects wane

Canada is expected to record the lowest level of growth in living standards among 32 industrialized countries.


9:19AM
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Higher capital gains taxes will further threaten living standards in Canada

Business investment (excluding residential development) is down 22.5 per cent.


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Canada should increase productivity—not simply supercharge immigration

Federal policymakers seem uninterested in helping workers and businesses become more productive.