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What’s the greatest comeback Canada has never seen? In this episode, host Marwa Abdou and Carol Anne Hilton unpack Indigenomics: a framework for redesigning economic systems around reciprocity, responsibility, and relationship to land.
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Powered by 45 economic indicators, BDLNow is a nowcast tool that delivers a real-time estimate of Canada’s GDP growth.
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Canada’s federal regulatory burden has quietly ballooned — and the cost to business is no longer invisible.
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July saw significant job losses (-41k, -0.2%), marking the sharpest month-over-month decline since January 2025. Both the employment and participation rates dropped by 0.2 percentage points each. With reduced labour demand this summer, the youth were hit hardest by these losses.
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