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Mark Carney and François-Philippe Champaign joke together while children stand in the background looking unimpressed.

Fiscal rules and the return of discipline to Canada’s finances

Governments often abandon fiscal rules when choices get hard, but clear standards and independent oversight could help restore credibility.
A line drawing of scrambled lines being placed in order by a dollar sign inside a cog.

Canada is spending billions to fix the wrong productivity problem

Thomas Courchene in a suit standing for a portrait.

Tom Courchene showed how economists can shape public policy

A worker in a yellow safety vest wrangles three shopping carts in a driving snowstorm.

A youth employment supplement could rebalance Canada’s generational divide

The man stands knee-deep in a clearing with tall grasses and an evergreen forest in the distance.

Why peatlands must be central to Canada’s climate and economic agendas

Students filling out participatory budget idea submission form.

Participatory budgeting is a low-risk, high-return democratic upgrade

Tiff macklem gestures with his hands while speaking at a microphone with a Canadian flag in the background.

Canada needs an open finance roadmap, not just open banking

A shiny new foodbank with food organized on shelves with aisles like a supermarket.

Ten million Canadians live in food-insecure households. The federal budget doesn’t help them

Mark Carney speaking at a podium, viewed from the side, with dark background.

Carney’s industrial bet: Building Canada’s future while cutting the public service

Fiscal policy must be sustainable over the long term

“March Madness” does exist!

The gaping holes in Ottawa’s Indigenous fiscal policy

Modernizing financial regulation to address climate-related risks

Why policy-makers should care about behavioural science

La bonification du RRQ : une flexibilité accrue

Les nouvelles règles fiscales toucheront peu de médecins

The problem with productivity

Act now on science funding, or miss Canada’s moment

The Saskatchewan budget and Wall’s fuzzy principles

The fatal flaw in the nation-to-nation agenda

The budget’s baby steps on gender analysis

La demande pour des innovations est laissée en plan

Budget 2017: Right road, low fuel Column by Jennifer Ditchburn

How to speedread the federal budget

Which way forward for Canada’s international investment treaty policy?

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