Northerneconomist

Rising health expenditure and aging populations are linked in policy discussions of health spending. With the health expenditure to GDP ratio in Canada now up to 12.7 percent...

The news that the City of Thunder Bay has an “unexpected” operating surplus for 2025 has been greeted with a mixture of commentary including some remarks that it should be...

The road ahead for Canada became better delineated this week with the announcement that the winning proposal to build Canada’s new submarine fleet was the German Norwegian TKMS bid which beat out the South Korean Hanwha proposal.  While the ultimate deal still must be finalized and Hanwha is the reserve bidder, in the world of defence c...

Universities in Ontario have been feeling somewhat more upbeat this year in the wake of provincial government measures to bolster the sector. After years of essentially starving the sector with a tuition cut and freeze as well as a continued freeze in operating grant funding, 2026 saw the announcement of combined measures totalling nearly $6...