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1. Outdated EI system adds to Atlantic Canada’s labour challenges

   More than 267,000 Atlantic Canadians currently receive some form of EI benefit. ...

2. Artificial Intelligence will kill jobs—and create them

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, July 11, 2019 Ever since the Industrial Revolution, the automation of tasks once done by humans has raised fears about machines putting humans out of work and creating mass poverty. Happily, history has repeatedly proven the ...

3. Minimum wage hikes can hurt the people they’re supposed to help

   Recently, Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government said it will not proceed with a scheduled increase to Ontario’s minimum wage, which the previous government planned to implement next year. As a result, the minimum wage ...

4. Alberta’s higher taxes, rapid debt accumulation and higher minimum wages are hurting workers

   A strong labour market is critical for the prosperity of workers. It matches workers looking for the right job opportunity with employers looking for workers with the right skills. But to properly judge the strength of Alberta’s labour ...

5. The Great Employee Pay Divide in British Columbia

   As Premier John Horgan’s government negotiates nearly 200 new contracts for British Columbia’s government-sector employees, it’s important to understand the significant wage and benefit gap between government and private-sector workers. ...

6. Canada should follow U.S. example and give workers more choice

   Canadians should be aware of a recent landmark Supreme Court decision in the United States (Janus v. AFSCME) that will give American workers more choice by allowing workers in the government sector (federal, state and local) to decide ...

7. Demographics and Entrepreneurship blog series: The connection between entrepreneurship and prosperity

   As part of the blog series summarizing the Fraser Institute’s Demographics and Entrepreneurship essays, this post summarizes the theoretical and empirical connection between entrepreneurship and economic prosperity. The entrepreneur ...

8. An economy is for producing well-being, not GDP or tax revenue

   I’m normally a big fan of TD Economics and its various newsletters and publications, which you can get sent to you free. A well-known bank economist once told me the purpose of bank economics departments is not to help with actual bank ...

9. Not fake, but misleading news on minimum wages

   CBC’s The National ran a very touching story this week about the hard choices faced by three Toronto men holding down minimum wage jobs. It was both empathetic and sympathetic. Good. We shouldn’t skimp on either for people who are worse ...

10. Upcoming minimum wage hikes threaten younger and less-skilled Ontarians

    In January, Ontario’s minimum wage will increase to $14 an hour, up from $11.60 today. In January 2019, the wage floor will increase by another dollar to $15 per hour. There are good reasons to worry that such a rapid increase in the ...