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Canadian economy & policy
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3How 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.Article11 Oct49 quotes · 1 source · 11 minTemporary 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.Article10 Oct57 quotes · 1 source · 11 minImmigrants, 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.Article10 Oct36 quotes · 1 source · 7 min
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2Do 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 problem10 OctWhat 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 problem10 Oct
Research
6Canada's €64M "Investment" in Latvian Military Infrastructure: Fact-CheckThe €64M is a Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) outlay under Operation REASSURANCE.Fact-check22 Jul14k charactersThe 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.Fact-check22 Jul18k charactersFact-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.Fact-check22 Jul22k charactersHow 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.Research brief22 Jul25k charactersMass 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).Research brief22 Jul53k charactersThe 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.Dossier22 Jul46k characters
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36The €64M is a Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) outlay under Operation REASSURANCE.Canada's €64M "Investment" in Latvian Military Infrastructure: Fact-Check€64MThe €64M is one tranche of more than €315M Canada has committed since 2017 as framework nation of the NATO Multinational Brigade Latvia.Canada's €64M "Investment" in Latvian Military Infrastructure: Fact-Check€64MOn 19 May 2026 in Riga, foundation stones were laid for two construction projects worth a combined €64 million (roughly $95M CAD / $70M USD at current rates):Canada's €64M "Investment" in Latvian Military Infrastructure: Fact-Check€64 millionHowe's Skuterud), and shows that of roughly +1.7 million net jobs added in Canada from 2019 to 2024, the vast majority (>90%) were filled by landed immigrants plus NPRs, with Canadian-born employment up only modestly.The Canadian Equivalent of the "9-of-10 Jobs to Foreign-Born" Claim: A StatsCan-Based Reality Check1.7 millionStatsCan reports that immigration contributed 79.9% of Canadian labour-force growth from 2016 to 2021 — and that share rose further through 2022–2024 once NPR inflows are included.The Canadian Equivalent of the "9-of-10 Jobs to Foreign-Born" Claim: A StatsCan-Based Reality Check79.9%From 2020 to 2022, the core-aged (25–54) employment rate rose 8.1 pp among recent immigrants vs. 4.4 pp among Canadian-born.The Canadian Equivalent of the "9-of-10 Jobs to Foreign-Born" Claim: A StatsCan-Based Reality Check8.1 ppAdding NPRs lifts the total foreign-born share above 30% by 2024.The Canadian Equivalent of the "9-of-10 Jobs to Foreign-Born" Claim: A StatsCan-Based Reality Check30%Rose by only roughly +100K to +200K at most — and on a per-capita basis, the Canadian-born employment rate actually declined since 2016 by 2.0 percentage points.The Canadian Equivalent of the "9-of-10 Jobs to Foreign-Born" Claim: A StatsCan-Based Reality Check2.0 percentage points
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