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The Canadian unemployment rate is set to jump from historic lows to historic highs when @StatCan_eng announces the March numbers on Thursday morning.#cdnecon With help from an amazing programmer, and

Neil Before Zod™

Oh Andrew Coyne. Time to debunk this media myth making. Who is up for a trip down memory lane about the economic record of the Harper government? Let's start with

Stephen Tapp 🇨🇦 🌎

Open #CdnEcon Q:With an MA in Economics from a top Canadian school and a goal to help shape economic policy (in Canada): Is a Masters in Public Policy helpful?In what

JenniferRobson8

I know parents will be relieved by this order. But the suggestion to go get federal $$ to keep centres liquid is not going to cut it if we want

Kevin Carmichael

CarmichaelKevin

I did an exit interview with the BoC's Poloz on May 26. A 2,500-word postmortem of the Poloz years is in edit, but in case @BloombergCA gets a copy of

Today in Toronto Rentals This one has been vacant a while and still no bites after a 13% reduction in the 2018 leased price. Today in Toronto RentalsA whopping $500

Stephen Tapp 🇨🇦 🌎

3 top #CdnEcon labour economists (@tammyschirle @kevinmilligan @mikalskuterud) dig into 's Labour Force Survey https://www.cdhowe.org/intelligence-memos/schirle-milligan-skuterud-%E2%80%93-digging-one-level-deeper-march%E2%80%99s-workforce-number

Stephanie Lluis

Continuing my LFS updates this time on self-employment. As I had shown back in April, the distinction btw incorporated and unincorporated is key when interpreting trends. Relative to population, *incorporated*

JenniferRobson8

In no particular order, here are some if the Qs I think we need answers to in a re-opening plan (note: more than 5 per WHO or 6 as in

3k workers (20-69 yrs) perished in #CdnPoli pandemic @CPHO_Canada. Hard to get good official #OSH info . Using #ONpoli @WSIB injury reports & PHU data from @TOPublicHealth & http://covid-19.ontario.ca to estimate

I'm going to start a daily series on everything the pandemic has taught us. (Well many of these are things we already knew, but #COVID19 has confirmed them.)Day 1: Austerity

Heather e^‑1/x^2

When there is a coordinated inauthentic hashtag trend, aka #CIB (coordinated inauthentic behaviour) amplified by troll networks & authentic users who are wittingly or unwittingly participants in these networks, the

JenniferRobson8

I have not yet had coffee but here's a longish thread on postal banking in Canada, thrift, and account-based policy. #cdnecon #cdnpoli https://twitter.com/chambart/status/1265252673974132736 As the article notes, we had postal

Armine Yalnizyan

ArmineYalnizyan

This article has crystallized some back-burner thoughts I've had on the rise in popularity of the term "K-shaped recovery".Here I go:https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1319974189537906689 The term causes you to think abou