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A Crisis of Capital: Canadian Workers Need More Tools, Buildings and Equipment 0 0 0 3 1 1 3 21
Accounting for and Thinking about Social Security Liabilities in Canada 0 0 0 11 3 8 12 112
An Aging Population Fiscal Challenge: Planning for Healthcare Costs in Quebec 0 0 0 18 2 2 4 58
Bending Canada's Healthcare Cost Curve: Watch Not What Governments Say, But What They Do 0 0 0 55 3 4 10 88
Bigger CPP, Bigger Risks: What “Fully Funded” Expansion Means and Doesn’t Mean 0 0 0 15 1 1 6 27
Boomer Bulge: Dealing with the Stress of Demographic Change on Government Budgets in Canada 0 0 0 74 2 2 7 321
Capital Needed: Canada Needs More Robust Business Investment 0 0 0 11 2 4 11 39
Delivering Healthcare to an Aging Population: Nova Scotia’s Fiscal Glacier 0 0 0 43 4 4 7 94
Disarmed and Disadvantaged: Canada’s Workers Need More Physical Capital to Confront the Productivity Challenge 0 0 0 30 2 4 12 164
Drawing Down Our Savings: The Prospects for RRIF Holders Following the 2015 Federal Budget 0 0 0 7 0 1 8 29
Endogenous Buffer Stock Money 0 0 1 9 3 4 7 23
Equipment Failure: Feeble Business Investment Costs Canadians their Competitive Edge 0 0 0 11 1 2 5 19
Equipping Canadian Workers: Business Investment Loses a Step against Competitors Abroad 0 0 0 11 3 4 9 38
Federal Employee Pension Reforms: First Steps - on a Much Longer Journey 0 0 0 17 2 3 9 44
Found Money: Matching Canadians' Saving with Their Infrastructure Needs 0 0 1 8 1 3 6 98
From Living Well to Working Well: Raising Canada's Performance in Non-residential Investment 0 0 0 8 1 3 12 68
Give Canadian Workers the Tools to do the Job! Why Canada Needs More Robust Capital Investment 0 0 0 16 4 5 15 117
Healthcare Costs in Canada: Stopping Bad News Getting Worse 0 0 0 64 3 5 21 56
Healthcare Spending Decelerating? Not so Fast! 0 0 0 32 3 3 11 33
Healthcare Spending Overshoots a Threat to Sustainability 0 0 0 4 2 4 7 40
Healthcare and an Aging Population: Managing Slow-Growing Revenues and Rising Health Spending in British Columbia 0 0 0 9 1 3 7 40
Inflated Expectations: More Immigrants Can’t Solve Canada’s Aging Problem on Their Own 0 0 0 43 2 2 10 62
Lasting Bang for the Stimulus Buck: Priorities for the 2009 Federal Budget 0 0 0 37 1 2 7 120
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Are Demographics a Fiscal Iceberg for Newfoundland and Labrador? 0 1 1 100 3 5 13 196
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Does the Demographic Glacier Portend a Fiscal Ice-Age in Ontario? 0 0 0 55 1 1 18 99
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: How Alberta Can Confront its Coming Fiscal Challenge 0 0 0 42 2 3 8 46
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: How Manitoba Can Confront Its Healthcare Glacier 0 0 0 13 0 0 2 50
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: New Brunswick’s $78 Billion Question 0 0 0 49 1 1 5 34
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Ontario’s Troubling Collision Course 0 0 0 18 5 5 9 62
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Prince Edward Island’s $14 Billion Healthcare Glacier 0 0 0 49 0 1 7 42
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Some Good News and Some Bad News for Saskatchewan 0 0 0 46 0 0 6 51
Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: The Fiscal Challenge Quebec Has Yet to Face 0 0 0 53 0 0 5 50
Managing healthcare for an aging population: will demographics push Newfoundland and Labrador into a fiscal deep freeze? 0 0 0 50 0 0 5 52
Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: British Columbia Confronts its Glacier 0 0 0 46 1 2 7 45
Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Manitoba’s Looming Funding Gap 0 0 0 36 1 3 6 36
Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Nova Scotia’s Healthcare Glacier 0 0 0 55 1 1 9 40
Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Prince Edward Island’s $13 Billion Healthcare Squeeze 0 0 0 16 1 1 11 69
Managing the Costs of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Good—and Bad—News About Saskatchewan’s Fiscal Glacier 0 0 0 9 3 4 7 45
Managing the Costs of Healthcare for an Aging Population: How Alberta Can Confront its Fiscal Glacier 0 0 0 6 0 0 3 36
Managing the Costs of Healthcare for an Aging Population: The Fiscal Impact of New Brunswick’s Demographic Glacier 0 0 0 19 0 1 3 57
Ottawa's Pension Gap: The Growing and Under-reported Cost of Federal Employee Pensions 0 0 0 19 3 4 8 106
Ottawa's Secret Debt: The Burden and Risks of Federal Employee Pensions 0 0 0 4 0 0 3 21
Outliving Our Savings: Registered Retirement Income Funds Rules Need a Big Update 0 0 0 14 2 2 4 58
Premium Compensation: The Ballooning Cost of Federal Government Employees 0 0 0 14 0 1 15 34
Stuck on a Spoke: Proliferating Bilateral Trade Deals are a Dangerous Game for Canada 0 0 1 18 0 0 3 128
The Fiscal Implications of Canadians’ Working Longer 0 0 0 24 1 3 14 36
The Glacier Grinds Closer: How Demographics Will Change Canada’s Fiscal Landscape 0 0 1 92 2 4 8 330
The Public-Sector Pension Bubble: Time to Confront the Unmeasured Cost of Ottawa's Pensions 0 0 0 20 1 2 3 90
The Retooling Challenge: Canada's Struggle to Close the Capital Investment Gap 0 0 0 13 2 3 6 57
Unbalanced Books: How to Improve Toronto’s Fiscal Accountability 0 0 0 23 2 4 11 172
What to do About Seniors' Benefits in Canada: the Case for letting Recipients Take Richer Payments Later 0 0 0 4 2 4 10 52
When Striking an Awkward Balance Means Striking Out: Budget 2011 0 0 0 12 2 6 14 55
Will C-36 Undermine CPP “9.9”? Benefit Enhancement and the Sustainability of the Canada Pension Plan 0 0 0 16 2 2 8 107
Total Working Papers 0 1 5 1,471 85 137 437 3,967


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A Faster Track to Fiscal Balance: The 2011 Shadow Budget 0 0 0 15 7 7 10 94
A Social Insurance Model for Pharmacare: Ontario's Options for a More Sustainable, Cost-Effective Drug Program 0 0 1 31 2 2 11 143
Achieving Balance, Spurring Growth: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2012 0 0 0 4 2 2 5 55
Adaptability, Accountability and Sustainability: Intergovernmental Fiscal Arrangements in Canada 0 0 0 3 4 6 14 30
Back to Balance: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2010 0 0 0 29 2 3 7 133
Baffling Budgets: The Sorry State of Municipal Fiscal Accountability in Canada 0 0 2 17 2 2 13 126
Big Spenders: Canada’s Senior Governments Have a Bad Budget Habit 0 0 0 4 1 7 13 38
Blown Budgets: Canada’s Senior Governments Need Better Fiscal Controls 0 0 0 0 5 9 13 32
Building Better Budgets: Canada’s Cities Should Clean Up their Financial Reporting 0 0 0 4 2 5 11 48
By the Numbers: The Fiscal Accountability of Canada's Senior Governments, 2015 0 0 0 10 4 5 9 60
Canada's 2012 Fiscal Accountability Rankings 0 0 0 5 0 0 10 72
Canada’s Looming Retirement Challenge: Will Future Retirees Be Able to Maintain Their Living Standards upon Retirement? 0 0 0 71 2 4 10 300
Challenges, Growth and Opportunity: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2015 0 0 0 9 3 5 17 67
Controlling the Public Purse: The Fiscal Accountability of Canada’s Senior Governments 0 0 1 8 7 14 18 119
Credibility on the (Bottom) Line: The Fiscal Accountability of Canada's Senior Governments, 2013 0 0 1 7 2 2 7 51
Cutting Through Pension Complexity: Easy Steps Forward for the 2010 Federal Budget 0 0 0 5 3 4 11 144
Don’t Double Down on the CPP: Expansion Advocates Understate the Plan’s Risks 0 0 0 9 4 5 16 93
Enduring Virtues: Saving and Investing as National Priorities in 2017 0 0 0 5 4 5 8 63
Equipping Canadians for Success: A Shadow Budget for 2014 0 0 0 3 2 2 9 65
Faster, Younger, Richer? The Fond Hope and Sobering Reality of Immigration's Impact on Canada's Demographic and Economic Future 0 1 1 90 2 3 8 340
Federal Debt Reduction: Choosing Paths 0 0 0 25 3 4 6 220
Fiscal Tonic for an Aging Nation: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2007 0 0 0 7 7 11 17 103
Fixing MP Pensions: Parliamentarians Must Lead Canada's Move to Fairer, and Better-Funded Retirements 0 0 0 10 7 11 24 86
Freeing up Food: The Ongoing Cost, and Potential Reform, of Supply Management 0 0 0 71 5 7 18 259
From A to F: Grading the Fiscal Transparency of Canada’s Cities, 2019 0 0 0 15 2 3 7 59
Fuzzy Finances: Grading the Financial Reports of Canada’s Municipalities 0 0 0 8 3 4 15 72
Getting Real: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2017 0 0 1 3 0 2 12 46
Hidden Spending: The Fiscal Impact of Federal Tax Concessions 0 0 2 22 4 8 22 86
Holding Canada's Cities to Account: an Assessment of Municipal Fiscal Management 0 0 0 11 5 6 17 119
Ill-Defined Benefits: The Uncertain Present and Brighter Future of Employee Pensions in Canada 0 0 0 63 2 3 11 264
Impulse Spending: Canada's 2011 Fiscal Accountability Rankings 0 0 0 5 2 11 23 110
Less Debt, More Growth: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2019 0 0 0 9 7 7 12 56
Missed Targets: Canada's 2007 Fiscal Accountability Ranking 0 0 0 18 2 4 8 106
More RRBs, Please! Why Ottawa Should Issue More Inflation-Indexed Bonds 0 0 0 6 1 4 11 77
Near Hits and Big Misses: Canada's 2009 Fiscal Accountability Rankings 0 0 0 27 2 4 6 143
Numbers You can Trust? The Fiscal Accountability of Canada’s Senior Governments, 2017 0 0 0 2 1 1 6 30
Off the Mark: Canada's 2008 Fiscal Accountability Ranking (also available in French) 0 0 1 9 3 4 11 68
Ottawa's Pension Abyss: The Rapid Hidden Growth of Federal-Employee Retirement Liabilities 0 0 0 5 2 2 9 59
Ottawa’s Hidden Deficit: The Widening Gap between Federal Government Pension Liabilities and Assets 0 0 0 11 4 6 13 54
Prudence and Opportunity: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2013 0 0 0 5 1 1 10 55
Realistic Expectations: Demographics and the Pursuit of Prosperity in Saskatchewan 0 0 0 43 0 0 10 224
Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Employer-Sponsored Pension Plans in Canada 0 0 0 44 1 1 4 158
Rethinking Limits on Tax-Deferred Retirement Savings in Canada 0 0 0 9 6 9 75 128
Retiring Employees, Unretired Debt: The Surprising Hidden Cost of Federal Employee Pensions 0 0 0 2 3 5 16 43
Righting the Course: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2018 0 0 0 1 2 5 12 62
Safe Harbours: Providing Protection for Canada's Money-Purchase Plan Sponsors 0 1 1 16 3 4 10 165
Show Us the Numbers: Grading the Financial Reports of Canada’s Municipalities 0 0 0 4 2 6 12 38
Show and Tell: Rating the Fiscal Accountability of Canada’s Senior Governments, 2019 0 0 0 5 4 6 16 50
Steering Through Turbulence: The Shadow Federal Budget for 2008 0 0 0 3 2 2 9 52
Stress Test: Demographic Pressures and Policy Options in Atlantic Canada 0 0 0 40 4 6 16 211
Supersized Superannuation: The Startling Fair-Value Cost of Federal Government Pensions 0 0 0 36 1 3 7 253
Supporting Growth, Restoring Confidence: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2020 0 0 1 4 3 6 17 39
Target Practice Needed: Canada’s 2010 Fiscal Accountability Rankings 0 0 0 7 2 2 7 88
The Costs of Inflexible Indexing: Avoiding the Adverse Fiscal Impacts of Lower Inflation 0 0 0 10 3 4 14 109
The Numbers Game: Rating the Fiscal Accountability of Canada’s Senior Governments 0 0 0 4 4 6 11 54
There is No Try: Sustainable Healthcare Requires Reining in Spending Overshoots 0 0 0 3 3 4 11 45
Thin Capitalization: Weak Business Investment Undermines Canadian Workers 0 0 0 2 2 5 12 39
Time and Money: The Challenge of Demographic Change and Government Finances in Canada 0 0 0 56 1 5 11 200
To the Next Level: From Gold Standard to Inflation Targets - to Price Stability? 0 0 0 57 2 2 6 237
Tooling up: Canada Needs More Robust Capital Investment 0 0 0 4 6 7 13 55
Two Sets of Books at City Hall? Grading the Financial Reports of Canada’s Cities 0 0 1 2 3 3 8 27
What You See is Not What You Get: Budgets versus Results in Canada’s Major Cities, 2019 0 0 0 1 1 5 11 32
Where the Bucks Stop: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2016 0 0 1 4 2 4 15 28
Wild Numbers: Getting Better Fiscal Accountability in Canada’s Municipalities 0 0 0 3 1 2 5 27
Worse Than It Looks: The True Burden and Risks of Federal Employee Pension Plans 0 0 0 4 3 8 18 47
Total Journal Articles 0 2 14 1,025 187 305 824 6,556


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Two Percent Target: The Context, Theory, and Practice of Canadian Monetary Policy since 1991 2 2 2 18 3 5 15 59
Total Books 2 2 2 18 3 5 15 59


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Six Pillars of Social Policy: The State of Pensions and Health Care in Canada 0 0 0 197 3 4 13 2,492
The Canadian Monetary Order: Past, Present, and Prospects 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 9
Total Chapters 0 0 0 197 4 7 20 2,501


Statistics updated 2026-05-06