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November 1st, 2022 – The C.D. Howe Institute announced today a $1.5 million gift from noted philanthropist and long-time member Donald K. Johnson to enhance the Institute’s policy research capacity.
September 15, 2022 – Taxpayers and citizens need greater fiscal transparency from Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial governments, says the latest report from the C.D. Howe Institute.
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JOHN WOODS/The Canadian Press Glen Hodgson is a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute. Shaping a successful economy with much lower GHG emissions will be an ever-present challenge for the next three decades. The low-carbon transition has begun, but is still at a very early stage; we have only a broad idea of what the transition might look like in the years ahead. Nevertheless, legislative assemblies, including here in Canada, have charged ahead and declared the ambition of attaining an economy with no net GHG emissions by 2050. There will not be a single common pathway – many already exi...
January 21, 2021 – Outdated practices make the budgets of too many Canadian cities impossible for non-experts to understand, says a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Time for an Upgrade: Fiscal Accountability in Canada’s Cities, 2020,” authors William B.P. Robson and Miles Wu grade the clarity, comprehensiveness, and timeliness of the financial presentations of 31 major Canadian municipalities, based on their most recent budgets and financial statements, and prescribe some simple fixes to help the poor performers. “Opaque and late bu...