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Canada’s Gross National Income (GDP – income approach)
This post is intended to provide basic descriptive statistics for the components of Canada’s Gross National Product using the income… READ MORE
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21st Century Economic Shocks and Canadian Jobs
Canada’s labour market as measured by the number of jobs maintained has been resilient given the series of global shocks… READ MORE
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SD Platforms: Managing what you measure
Limits to Growth (1972) and the World Conservation Strategy (1980) led to the development of sustainable development (SD) frameworks over… READ MORE
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Grocery inflation
Inflation and the high cost of groceries has become a headline topic. The American Federal Trade Commission issued a report… READ MORE
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E-Retail Trade and the Eaton’s Catalogue
Statistics Canada is tracking and publishing value of retail e-commerce in Canada as a component of its monthly estimate of… READ MORE
wisdom for this month
James Graham on the lingering and as yet unresolved effect of the 2008 global Financial Crisis (Reuters digital July 17, 2025)
…We’d been promised that this was the end of history and that everything was inevitably going to be a linear advancement towards progress and improvement. … I had no idea the longer, bigger crises and anger that was going to be coming down the line.
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