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1. At Conference Board, poverty is forever

   Appeared in the National Post The Conference Board of Canada's recent media release on its study, How Canada Performs, screams Canada's Record on Poverty Among The Worst of Developed Countries--And Slipping. But this conclusion is simply not ...

2. Focus on helping the truly poor

   Appeared in the National Post Most Canadians would never equate the plight of a 20-year-old student who has to scramble to find the money to go out for a beer with friends with the circumstances of a single mother earning the same income. As Anne Golden& ...

3. Fraser Forum- September 2009: Canada's Labour Market

   In this issue: Highlights of the 2009 Petroleum Survey by Gerry Angevine Manitoba is now the most attractive Canadian province for petroleum investment, while Alberta is the least attractive. Smart thinking on sales taxes by Niels Veldhuis and Charles ...

4. Labour Day Highlights Government’s Pursuit of Bad Labour Policies

   Appeared in the Guelph Mercury News, New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, Sudbury Star, Calgary Sun, and New Glasgow News Labour Day has traditionally been a holiday marked by parades, picnics, and other community festivities to celebrate the Canadian worker. ...

5. Measuring Labour Markets in Canada and the United States: 2009 Edition

   Measuring Labour Markets in Canada and the United States: 2009 Report is the fifth installment in our ongoing research to assess the performance of labour markets and explain why results differ among jurisdictions. This study provides a series of specific ...

6. Labour Relations Laws in Canada and the United States, 2009 Edition

   This study is the third installment of a long-term project to evaluate the extent to which labour relations laws bring flexibility to the labour market while balancing the needs of employers, employees, and unions. Balanced labour laws are crucial in ...

7. A more generous EI program will increase unemployment permanently

   Appeared in the Halifax Chronicle Herald, Penticton Herald, Calgary Herald, Winnipeg Free Press, Montreal Gazette, and Business in Vancouver Over the summer, the newly minted Employment Insurance Working Group, consisting of three members selected by ...

8. Institutions, Economic Growth, and the Curse of Natural Resources

   The proposition that natural resources, like physical and human capital, would spur economic growth would not seem to be controversial. So in the 1990s, when Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner (1995) showed empirical evidence of a natural resource curse-the ...

9. Canada's Problem With Interprovincial Trade Barriers

   Even though the free-trade negotiations between Canada and the European Union began earlier this month, the negotiations hit its first roadblock when the issue of interprovincial barriers came up. As one of the European diplomats pointed out, the European ...

10. McGuinty puts thousands of jobs at risk with planned increase in minimum wage

    Appeared in the Sudbury Star When it comes to minimum wages, Premier Dalton McGuinty recently acknowledged that increasing the minimum wage in challenging economic times like these might not be a good idea. He then suggested his government may not go ...