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If we’re going to afford all the things we think we need, we need more economic growth I was fooling around with some GDP data the other day, as we economists are wont to do, and when I put it on a chart and drew a couple of trend lines, I was shoc...

Kevin Carmichael: Trade data support expectations that the Bank of Canada will raise interest rates in March Imports surged to a record in December, suggesting companies and logistics experts are starting to work through the various supply issues t...

OTTAWA, ONTARIO — The Bank of Canada is pleased to announce that Université de Sherbrooke has won the seventh annual Governor’s Challenge, a national student competition in which teams simulate the ro...

Kevin Carmichael: A decline in economic activity of this size will interrupt the momentum the economy had built up Canadians worked significantly fewer hours in January, and the jobless rate surged, evidence that the Omicron wave of COVID-19 has sl...

More missed work due to illness than at the onset of the pandemic A record high number of employees missed work due to illness or disability in January, more than at the onset of the pandemic as the Omicron wave spread rapidly and forced semi-lockd...

Introduction Good morning. Thank you for inviting me to introduce this panel discussion. And thanks to the International Swaps and Derivatives Associa...

Good afternoon. I’m pleased to be here with you to discuss last week’s policy announcement and the Bank of Canada’s most recent Monetary Policy Report (...

Data suggest economic activity climbed above pre-pandemic levels for the first time in fourth quarter Canada’s economy grew more than expected in November to bring real gross domestic product above its pre-pandemic levels, but the Omicron variant c...

Tight conditions loosen a little but employers still struggling to find workers Canada’s unusually tight labour market loosened a little in November, but employers were still struggling to find enough workers to keep up with demand, new data showed...

The Canadian economy entered 2022 in a strong position. The Bank is forecasting growth of 4% in 2022 and about 3½ % in 2023. What you need to know ab...