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There are many challenges on the way to rebuilding Canada’s military, and we don’t have the luxury of time to achieve this ...
Canada exported approximately $10.4 billion CAD worth of products to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, ...
Yogi Joseph is Research Associate, Sustainability at The Conference Board of Canada. In this role, he works on projects that are crucial to driving the transition to our collective sustainable futures ...
Shah Nawaz Ahmad is a Research Associate, Sustainability for The Conference Board of Canada. In this role, Shah’s efforts focus on research and projects that have an emphasis on sustainable ...
Standing firm in the face of tariffs. After a muted end to 2024, the provincial economies will seek to regain momentum in 2025. Lower inflation and further interest rates cuts will set the stage for ...
Do Canadian-born visible minorities experience employment discrimination? Employment discrimination may contribute to the racial wage gap. Results of the 2014 General Social Survey show that ...
American Tourists are Still Welcome. This extra spending by Canadians could be offset by weaker inbound tourism from the United States. Although Canadian officials have been diligent in aiming trade ...
Post-secondary graduates in Canada earn more than those with only high-school diplomas, particularly at the bachelor’s level and above. Employment and labour force participation rates are higher for ...
Higher Education Trend Report: Student Outcomes–May 2025. In this research, we consider a wide variety of national and international statistics to analyze Canadian post-secondary student outcomes, ...
Trade Frictions Undermine Growth Revival. This quarter, we assess the extent to which trade tensions are putting a damper on what the story of 2025 should have been—consumers and businesses in ...
Jahm Mae Guinto is an Economist in the Economic Research Knowledge Area at The Conference Board of Canada. In this role, Jahm applies her expertise in quantitative analysis to provide evidence-based ...
Many newcomers to Canada find themselves working jobs that don’t fit. This webpage introduces a project that will look at immigrant skill mismatch and wastage in three sectors with acute labour ...