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Aug 12, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Andrew Evans |Karen Stintz
Commentary 13 August 2024 Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks during a rally in Montreal, June 19, 2024. Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press. On Friday, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre pre-empted the vacillating Trudeau government by rightly calling for import tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles as well as other manufactured goods.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Alicia Planincic |Andrew Evans
Commentary 6 August 2024 Pedestrians walk past a help wanted sign in San Francisco, April 18, 2023. Jeff Chiu/AP Photo. In each EconMinute, Business Council of Alberta economist Alicia Planincic seeks to better understand the economic issues that matter to Canadians: from business competitiveness to housing affordability to living standards and our country’s lack of productivity growth.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Andrew Evans |Dave Snow
A majority of Canadians think that Canada is broken after years of stagnant incomes, affordability challenges, rising crime, government failures on basic functions like healthcare and immigration, and a deepening cultural malaise. But decline is a choice, and better public policies are needed to overcome Canada’s many challenges.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
energypolicy.columbia.edu | Matt Bowen |Andrew Evans |Hamna Khan |Rama T. Ponangi
Summaries by Matt Bowen, Andrew Evans, Hamna Khan + 1 more On May 9, 2024, Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy hosted a virtual roundtable on nuclear reactor permitting reform in the United States and the environmental reviews that take place as part of their licensing by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | J.j. McCullough |Andrew Evans
Commentary 18 June 2024 A new Canadian citizen waves a Canada flag during a citizenship ceremony to mark Citizenship Week in Surrey, B.C., May 13, 2024. Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press. Conventional wisdom on Canadian immigration policy has been shifting so quickly in recent years it can be hard to keep up. Here’s my best attempt at a succinct summary of the narratives that have defined the topic since the mid-2000s or so.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Stephen Duane Staley |Andrew Evans |Sean Speer
Commentary 10 June 2024 An office worker in the financial district of Toronto, on Thursday, June 2, 2016. Eduardo Lima/The Canadian Press. Much ink has been spilled in the past year, rightfully, on the economic challenges facing Canada. Under Trudeau’s less-than-impressive leadership the country struggles to attract capital, both from outside its borders and even from homegrown institutional investors.
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May 13, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Andrew Evans
It’s increasingly recognized in policy and political circles that one of the biggest challenges facing the country is economic stagnation and declining living standards. This has led policy scholars to try to understand the causes and sources of Canada’s economic malaise.
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May 13, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Andrew Evans |Sean Speer |Taylor Jackson
DeepDive 13 May 2024 DeepDives is a bi-weekly essay series exploring key issues related to the economy. The goal of the series is to provide Hub readers with original analysis of the economic trends and ideas that are shaping this high stakes moment for Canadian productivity, prosperity, and economic wellbeing. The series features the writing of leading academics, area experts and policy practitioners.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Andrew Evans
In 2022, Canadian fertility hit its lowest rate ever at far below replacement level fertility of 2.1 children per woman, while 10 of 13 provinces also hit their lowest-ever levels. There are various factors behind the decline in fertility rates. Cardus’ Lyman Stone has studied them in Canada and around the world. Some such as housing or childcare costs are susceptible to policy responses. Others such as secularization in particular or shifting societal values in general may be less so.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Andrew Evans |Sean Speer
Although the next federal election could be more than a year away and its outcome is far from guaranteed, polls indicate that the Conservative Party of Canada is likely to be the winner. As the party prepares its policy platform, it should also start to give some thought to the structure of the federal government itself and possible institutional changes to improve the policymaking process.
