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View ArticleLibertarian if necessary, but not necessarily libertarian
The research and social planner for Calgary—that bastion of nanny statists—voices his objection to the census changes. Stephen Gordon wonders if the government will do away with the coercive and...
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Good news on employment, bad news on Canadian productivity
There are three very important labour market releases out this morning: both Canada and the U.S. published their November employment numbers, and Statistics Canada also released the labour productivity...
View ArticleCanada is a job juggernaut — except in manufacturing
To recap: The Canadian economy added a whopping 51,000 jobs in February, Statistics Canada said today. That was over six times the meagre consensus expectation of 8,000 new jobs. The unemployment rate...
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How StatsCan lost 42,000 jobs with the stroke of a key
Statistics Canada released the details of its investigation into its troubled July jobs numbers (which were changed from 200 new jobs to 42,000 earlier this month). It’s written in pretty dry and...
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Statistics Canada rewrote our story on Statistics Canada
Last week, I wrote a post detailing the findings of Statistics Canada’s investigation into its botched job numbers in July. The investigation report, authored by Claude Julien, director general of...
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There’s no reason to doubt Statistics Canada’s August jobs report
Don’t be like Admiral Motti [Screenshot via YouTube] This post originally appeared at BusinessInCanada.com In the wake of August’s jobs report, which showed that Canada lost 11,000 jobs over the course...
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As eurozone talks stall, fears of a Greek exit
Ah, Greece. The excitement never ends. If yesterday was a high-stakes day for Greece and the eurozone economy, it certainly wasn’t the first—and it won’t be the last. After talks over the next step...
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Your Friday economic pick-me-up
It’s Friday, so let’s start with the uplifting news: Canadians now have lower-paid jobs, and more household debt. That might not actually be a revelation. But two new reports released yesterday, one...
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Watching Janet Yellen
This week, it’s all about the Fed. On Wednesday, the Federal Open Reserve Committee (FOMC), source of the U.S.’s interest-rate changes as well as forecasts for the American economy, will make its...
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Zooming out on the global economy
This week is all about the big picture. In a world where economic policy is diverging widely, amidst a mixed bag of slowing growth, volatile oil prices and political instability (and don’t forget the...
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Canada’s private sector job growth looks grim
Friday’s jobs report for the month of June was a mixed bag. On the one hand, the economy shed 6,500 jobs, but that was less than the 10,000 job losses that had been forecast. The decline was also the...
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