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ICBA ECONOMICS: Digging Into British Columbia’s Lopsided Job Market
By Jock Finlayson, ICBA Chief Economist July 2024 brought another downbeat report on the state of the B.C. labour market, confirming that the...
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ICBA ECONOMICS: Alberta is Canada’s Energy Powerhouse
By Jock Finlayson, ICBA Chief Economist By any measure, Alberta is an energy powerhouse. In 2023, it produced 85% of Canada’s oil and accounted for...
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ICBA ECONOMICS: Which Industries Drive Economic Growth in B.C.?
By Jock Finlayson, ICBA Chief Economist Preliminary estimates from Statistics Canada show that B.C.’s economy grew by a modest 1.6% after inflation...
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ICBA ECONOMICS OP/ED: Corporate head offices are fleeing Canada
The following piece by ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson, in his role as a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute, was first published in the...
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ICBA ECONOMICS: A Mix of Canadian Construction Industry Statistics
By Jock Finlayson, ICBA Chief Economist Construction is a big and unusually visible segment of our economy, one that in some of the industry’s...
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ICBA ECONOMICS: A Look Under the Hood of the B.C. Business Community
By Jock Finlayson, ICBA Chief Economist If one listens closely to what provincial government ministers and many other politicians have to say about...
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ICBA ECONOMICS: Energy exports continue to fuel the Canadian economy
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ICBA ECONOMICS: Canada’s ‘Productivity Emergency’
By Jock Finlayson, ICBA Chief Economist Earlier this year, the Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada took the unusual step of publicly...
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ICBA ECONOMICS: Mid-Year Update
ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson has just released a mid-year update on economic conditions in Canada, with a specific focus on British Columbia...
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ICBA ECONOMICS: Update on Job Vacancy Rates… in Construction and the Wider Economy
By Jock Finlayson, ICBA Chief Economist Signs are multiplying that the once red-hot Canadian job market is cooling, fast.