In May, employment in Canada was virtually unchanged, rising by just 8,800 jobs. The labour force participation rate held ...

Trade tensions with the United States significantly impacted both exports and imports in April. Canadian exports fell 10.8 ...

Stronger than expected growth gives the Bank of Canada some breathing room. The first quarter of 2025 outperformed ...

Despite easing inflation and less restrictive monetary policy, provincial growth prospects for 2025 have been dampened by trade disruption with both the United States and China. A flurry of tariff ...

Real growth GDP in Canada bounced back in March to 0.1 per cent, bringing first quarter growth to 0.5 per cent. Advanced ...

U.S. relations on edge, and Canadians are finding ways to support local industry as much as possible. However, the U.S.

Canada’s post-secondary system is producing skilled graduates, but challenges remain in matching credentials to evolving ...

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 ...

Brittany Feor is a Senior Economist on the Economic Research team at The Conference Board of Canada. Brittany contributes to the Economic Research projects through quantitative analysis grounded in ...

This month, we outline divergent conditions in the new and resale housing markets. Why is the resale market soft? Which local markets are particularly suffering? How is Canada’s average resale price ...

This issue briefing provides an overview of job vacancies data from The Conference Board of Canada’s HR Metrics Benchmarking Q4 2024 survey. It explores organizational recruitment strategies as well ...

This research looks at a better way of forecasting the skills that are available in a labour market. Economic modelling has traditionally ignored the collection of skills that workers accumulate. But ...