Employment & Unemployment

  • Appearing Before the Senate Committee On Banking, Commerce and the Economy
  • Canada’s Growing Jobs Advantage Over the U.S.
  • Canadian Domestic Economy Fell Into Recession in the Autumn
  • Canadian Workers Need More Technology, Not Less
  • Child Care Expansion Would Boost Economic Recovery, Study Finds
  • Corporate Power and Post-Pandemic Inflation: A Deeper Dive
  • Don’t Make Monetary Policy on Twitter
  • Economic Outlook for 2023: Soft Landing or Hard Impact?
  • Employer Complaints of ‘Labour Shortage’ Lead to Attacks on Income Security
  • Encouraging Job Numbers, but a Long Way to Recovery
  • Fifteen Super-Profitable Industries are Driving Canadian Inflation
  • Getting Real About Recruitment and Retention in a “Labour Shortage”
  • Help Business – But do it Right
  • Higher Interest Rates Starting to Bite in Canada’s Labour Market
  • Inflation Accelerates in July Despite Higher Unemployment
  • Interrogating the Labour Shortage Hypothesis
  • Is the Economy “Hot”? Or is it Cold, and Getting Colder?
  • Is There Really a Shortage of Labour?
  • Latest Interest Rate Hike Increases Risk of Recession
  • Learning from Minimum Wage History
  • Newspaper and Video Coverage of New COVID-19 Report
  • Orthodox Cure for Inflation Will Be Worse than the Disease
  • Pearson Centre Webinar on Economics After COVID, Featuring Director Jim Stanford
  • Podcast: Inflation, Recession, and Fairness
  • Rebuilding Canada’s Economy Must Start with Rebuilding Work
  • Reconstruction After COVID-19 Will Require Sustained Government Leadership
  • Saying the Quiet Bits Out Loud: Bank of Canada Aims to Raise Unemployment
  • Second Wave of COVID Job Losses Just as Unfair as the First
  • Taking Away the Punchbowl
  • Ten Ways to Improve Work After COVID-19 Pandemic
  • The Economy After COVID: What Comes Next?
  • The Failures of ‘Trickle-Down’ Economics in Alberta
  • The False Doctrine of the ‘Labour Shortage’
  • Transition Plan for Workers can Prevent Unemployment as Fossil Fuels are Phased Out
  • Video Presentation on Building Better Jobs After COVID
  • Who Wins, Who Loses in the Fight Against Inflation
  • ‘Official’ Unemployment Just the Tip of the Iceberg
  • “We Need All Hands on Deck in this Labour Market”