4 numbers that will disappoint Joe Oliver about Canada’s economy

Published July 3, 2015

Who will break the bad news to Finance Minister Joe Oliver?

Stephen Harper steers Canada’s economy into a “prolonged period of misery”

Published March 16, 2015

…And now back to the economy. With Harper’s Conservatives cranking up the dial on over-the-top rhetoric on national security and a weird digression into issues of race and culture, Canada’s weakening economy has managed to dodge the attention it would have generated otherwise. Now we know why: things aren’t looking good. Falling oil prices have […]

Canadian women dropped out of the workforce in record numbers in 2014

Published March 11, 2015

This isn’t a good sign. After decades of increasing participation in the Canadian workforce, a record number of women dropped out in 2014, according to Statistics Canada data compiled by CUPE economist Toby Sanger. Over 80,000 women dropped out of the workforce last year alone, Sanger adds that, “the unemployment rate for women … would […]

Harpernomics 101: low-income jobs growing, high-income jobs falling

Published January 28, 2015

Jason Kenney wasn’t quick to Tweet about Wednesday’s employment numbers. Stephen Harper’s employment minister faced a double dose of bad news on the job front. Great to see the creation of 54,000 full time #jobs last month: http://t.co/9hOMc20dD9 — Jason Kenney ن (@kenneyjason) January 9, 2015 New Statistics Canada data shows that the quality of Canadian jobs has declined since 2006 — the […]

Ouch! Canada only created 32,000 permanent jobs in 2014

Published January 9, 2015

How was last year for job creation? Thanks to new job numbers released Friday, we now have a more complete picture of just how flat 2014 was. According to Statistics Canada, a grand total of 32,000 permanent jobs were created in Canada last year. Meanwhile, the country saw temporary jobs increase by 110,000 over the same […]

“The labour market is not strong, that’s a given”: CIBC economist

Published August 11, 2014

Editor’s note: after releasing its July jobs report on Aug. 8 showing 200 jobs were created overall, Statistics Canada said on Aug. 12 it had made an unspecified error in the labour force survey. The agency released an amended jobs report on Aug. 15. The clip of the interview below was recorded before the corrected report was released. […]