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1. Transitory or not, here comes inflation

   In August, the price of meat increased by 6.9 per cent. ...

2. Calls for ever higher federal transfers disconnected from economic reality

   Provincial transfers represented about 21 per cent of federal spending, up from 13 per cent in 1997. ...

3. Governments and central bankers may have paved way for severe pain in near future

   Governments around the world—including Canada—have injected an enormous amount of liquidity into the financial system. ...

4. Ontario government has made COVID economic pain even worse

   The Greenbelt Act helped drive up residential housing prices in the Greater Toronto Area. ...

5. Government debt interest costs will crowd out essential spending in Ontario

   Ontario's debt interest costs will rise by 21 per cent. ...

6. Supply constraints drive home prices in Canada

   In April, the average price for a home in Canada hit $723,500. ...

7. Canada’s COVID performance on key measures among worst in developed world

   Canada has the seventh-worst “case fatality rate” among advanced countries. ...

8. COVID-19 case counts, mortality rates vary widely across developed world

   Each additional hospital bed (per 1,000 people) was associated with 31.5 fewer COVID-19 deaths per million. ...

9. Global Storm: The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Responses around the World

   The key event of 2020 was the COVID19 virus and its impacts on health, mortality rates, economies, and government budgets. From the first reports of a pneumonia of unknown origin in Wuhan, China, the COVID19 pandemic grew and spread to countries around ...

10. Reliance on housing investment creates prosperity mirage in Ontario

    The provincial net debt-to-GDP ratio went from about 5 per cent in the 1960s to more than 40 per cent in 2020. ...