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1. What a difference a decade can make—southwestern Ontario’s sobering lesson for Alberta

   At the start of this century, southwestern Ontario was among the most prosperous regions in Canada. With a strong manufacturing sector, there were plenty of good high-paying jobs. In the following years, the regional economy was battered ...

2. GM layoffs highlight divergence between Ontario’s two biggest cities and rest of province

   The announced closure of the General Motors’ auto assembly plant in Oshawa will cause severe hardship for thousands of families. It’s horrible news. But if you’re determined to find a silver lining, there’s this—the major closure so ...

3. Job growth in Toronto and Ottawa masks job weakness in most of Ontario

   Ontarians have experienced significant economic pain since the Great Recession. While the provincewide economy has recovered to an extent, job growth in Ontario has been below the national average since 2008. Furthermore, many regions ...

4. Nearly half of Ontario urban areas had fewer jobs last year than in 2008

   It's widely known that Ontario has suffered more than its fair share of economic pain over the past decade. That pain, however, has not been spread evenly across the province. While the provincial economy’s overall performance has ...

5. Uneven Recovery: Much of Ontario Still Hasn't Fully Recovered from the 2008 Recession

   In recent history, Ontario has suffered more than its share of economic pain. From 2003 to 2015, real per-person economic growth in Ontario was roughly half of the rate in the rest of the country at 0.5 percent annually. Thanks to a steep recession and a ...

6. Expanding rent controls in Ontario will further damage housing affordability

   There’s growing interest at Queen’s Park for the expansion of rent controls to address high rents in Ontario’s biggest cities. Most recently, Premier Kathleen Wynne (pictured above) expressed skepticism that a former Ontario government’s ...

7. Ontario government’s plan—let traffic get worse

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, February 26, 2017 Much of the conversation about the Wynne government’s decision to block Toronto City Council’s plan to toll the Don Valley Parking Lot—Parkway, that is—and the Gardiner Expressway, has focused on the lost ...

8. Alberta poised to outdo Ontario on budget deficits

   Appeared in the Financial Post, August 24, 2016 A recent analysis from the federal government compared the economic damage done to Ontario’s auto sector during the financial crisis to the damage done to Alberta’s energy sector during the recent stretch of ...