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01How Canada's public-sector employees vote: the Canadian Election Study evidence, Ottawa's ridings, and the union endorsementsPublic-sector workers in Canada lean modestly left of private-sector workers, and most of that lean belongs to unionized professionals and managers. The city crews whose unions endorse the NDP vote much like their private-sector counterparts, and no released poll gives a party-by-party split to settle it.ArticleCanadian economy & policy49 quotes · 1 source · 11 min11 Oct

02Temporary foreign workers and Canadian innovation: what the automation evidence shows, and the study nobody has runThe research that says immigration drives innovation studies points-selected skilled migration. Canada's intake since 2016 has been mostly temporary and low-wage, and the causal work on cheap labour runs the other way — a 1% rise in low-skill wages lifts automation patenting 2–5%. The Canadian version of that study has never been done.ArticleCanadian economy & policy57 quotes · 1 source · 11 min10 Oct

03Immigrants, temporary residents and Canada's job growth since 2020: what the Labour Force Survey can and cannot showNearly all of Canada's post-pandemic job growth went to immigrants and temporary residents. But no Canadian government table publishes that split the way the American one does — every version of the figure is built by hand from an annual series that undercounts the very group it counts.ArticleCanadian economy & policy36 quotes · 1 source · 7 min10 Oct

04Do firms that rely on temporary workers innovate less?There is no published study directly comparing innovation output between TFW-heavy and TFW-light Canadian firms or industries.Open problemCanadian economy & policyOpen10 Oct

05What happens to the buildings Canada pays for abroad?There is no separate, transparent disclosure of how Canada's foreign-built assets are treated in current public reporting — this is a gap.Open problemCanadian economy & policyOpen10 Oct

06Canada's €64M "Investment" in Latvian Military Infrastructure: Fact-CheckThe €64M is a Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) outlay under Operation REASSURANCE.ResearchFact-checkCanadian economy & policy14k characters22 Jul

07The Canadian Equivalent of the "9-of-10 Jobs to Foreign-Born" Claim: A StatsCan-Based Reality CheckThe Canadian story is even more lopsided than the US one — but for different reasons.ResearchFact-checkCanadian economy & policy18k characters22 Jul

08Fact-Check & Gap Analysis: Tax and Regulatory Anatomy of a Small Commercial Storefront on Barton Street East, HamiltonMost of the diagram's headline figures are correct or close, but five need updating: the commercial-to-residential ratio is 2.ResearchFact-checkCanadian economy & policy22k characters22 Jul

09How Do Canadian Public Sector Employees Vote? A Look at the EvidenceNDP and Liberals, and away from the Conservatives — but the effect is more modest than American partisan rhetoric about a "deep state" or a "public class" would suggest.ResearchResearch briefCanadian economy & policy25k characters22 Jul

10Mass Immigration and the Suppression of Domestic Innovation in Canada: A Research BriefThe dominant public narrative — that immigration "drives innovation" — rests almost entirely on studies of high-skilled, points-selected immigration in the United States (chiefly the work of William Kerr and collaborators on H-1B and ethnic patenting).ResearchResearch briefCanadian economy & policy53k characters22 Jul

11The Canadian Economic Dossier (1994–May 2026)Canada's industrial base has thinned for thirty years and accelerated its restructuring under Trudeau into a state-financed EV/critical-minerals model now visibly failing under Trump-era tariffs and slumping EV demand.ResearchDossierCanadian economy & policy46k characters22 Jul