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1. Canada has lower job-growth, higher unemployment rate than U.S. over three years

   This Labour Day, while many Canadians and Americans spend time with friends and family, Canadian workers have less to celebrate than their American counterparts, as provincial labour markets have performed poorly compared to U.S. states ...

2. Participation rates—good news, bad news or neutral news?

   Part of being a market-oriented economist—and is there really any other kind?—is learning not to have the same reaction to economic news that everybody else does. For instance, this week StatCan published a short study on “The impact of ...

3. Unemployment rate doesn’t tell full story of Ontario’s economy

   According to Statistics Canada, Ontario’s unemployment rate dropped to 5.8 per cent in April, its lowest level since January 2001. The drop puts Ontario well below the national average, which shrank by 0.2 percentage points to 6.5 per ...