Featured Analysis

• RBC Consumer Spending Tracker

• Canada maintains tight immigration policy despite permanent resident exemptions

• Canadian federal budget preview: A new playbook for balancing bigger government with fiscal health

• Population growth boosts Alberta’s economy, challenges young job seekers

• Q3 Business Outlook Survey leaves BoC on track for another rate cut

• Expanding U.S. Section 232 tariffs squeezes Canadian manufacturers

• Canadian wealth inequality widened in Q2

• Canadian trade deficit widened in August as new tariffs took effect

• Canada’s population growth slows even as outflows fall increasingly short of targets

• Canada faces peak aging as final boomers retire and population growth slows

• Tariffs leave a mark on Canada’s industrial heartland

• Proof Point: Canadian industries and provinces most exposed to U.S. tariff threat

• Proof Point: Are falling rents in Canada temporary relief or a new trend

• Proof point: Canada’s job market slump—low-wage industries with young workers take the biggest hit

• Immigration cuts will help narrow Canada’s housing gap but won’t solve crisis

• Proof point: Why Canada is seeing an uneven recovery among households

• How Canada’s new immigration targets will impact the economy

• Proof point: Job market is bigger risk to Canada’s economy than mortgage renewals

• Three reasons why 2024’s 2% inflation isn’t 2019’s 2%

• Proof point: Financial returns after a post-secondary education have diminished

• Weighing the impact of Canadian tariffs on Chinese EVs and metals

• Proven points: Rents, wages, inflation and other top reads from Proof Point

• Navigating 2024: Reset and Revival In A Reshaping World

• Proof Point: Why has U.S. consumer spending been so much more resilient than Canada’s?

• Proof Point: Closing Canada’s infrastructure gap could boost Indigenous output by up to 17%

• Proof Point: Fiscal tailwinds coming to an end for Canada’s provinces

• Proof Point: For Canada, slower growth in China is a manageable risk

• Proof Point: The ranks of Canadian entrepreneurs are shrinking

• Proof Point: Is more turbulence on the way for Canadian labour relations?

• Proof Point: International students have a fast track to Canadian employment

• Proof Point: Canadian millennials have the smallest cushion against job losses

• Navigating 2023: Canada in the cross currents

• Proof Point: Canada needs more doctors—and fast

• Proof Point: Canada’s provinces are basking in revenue, but how long will it last?

• Proof Point: The housing-charged boom in Canadian net wealth is over

• Proof Point: Canada’s recession to arrive earlier than expected

• Proof Point: Canada still isn’t spending enough on the green economy

• The Price of Power: How to cut Canada’s Net Zero electricity bill

• Proof Point: The rise of services in Canadian goods trade

• The Great Canadian Restart: How 2022 can spark an era of greener, more robust growth

• What’s up with inflation?

• Squeeze Play: Higher wages alone won’t solve Canada’s labour shortage problem

• The Great Canadian Savings Puzzle

• The new challenges facing Canada’s small businesses

• A Regional Renaissance: More Canadians drawn to live on the Atlantic Coast during pandemic

• For Many Canadian Businesses, the Two Halves of 2021 Look Very Different

• Navigating 2021: 21 Charts for the Year Ahead

• Five Ways to Help Small Business

• A Spotlight on the Labour Market: An Uneven Recovery

• Canadian Women Continue to Exit the Labour Force

• What will a Biden administration mean for Canada?

• From Recession to Recovery – A Bumpy Road Ahead for the Canadian Economy

• How Covid is Transforming the Economy – and Everything We Do

• Quarterly Canadian outlook: Low but positive growth ahead

• Canada’s economic outlook: Shifting tides as tariff threats de-escalate

• Canada’s macroeconomic outlook: U.S. trade risks are derailing a recovery

• Canada’s growth prospects brighten in 2025 but not without challenges

• Falling inflation, rising jobless rate usher in easing cycles in Canada and abroad

• Rate cuts won’t spur immediate rebound in Canada’s economy

• Canadian economic slowdown is not over

• Hitting tipping points

• Canada’s economic engine is gearing down

• Canada’s economy is beating expectations, but for how long?

• Canadian economy unlikely to dodge a downturn despite early-2023 resilience

• Rate-hiking cycle ending as recession edges closer

• Brace for a ‘bumpy’ landing, Canada

• Hot provincial momentum to lose steam

• Western provincial economies shining more brightly in 2022

• Growth opportunities narrow amid searing inflation and a scarcity of workers

• Budget 2022: Will Ottawa rise to Canada’s growth challenge?

• Provincial economies face new challenges as pandemic threat fades

• Provinces to enter advanced stages of recovery in 2022

• Inflation top concern for 2022, Covid variant casts shadow

• Brighter Days Ahead: Fiscal picture improves from coast to coast

• Recovery bumpy but still advancing in all provinces

• The long and winding road to recovery

• Economic recovery shifts into higher gear

• Provincial economies reaching the other side of the valley

• Vaccines Put Global Economy on Recovery Track

• Vaccine Progress Brightens Outlook for Provincial Economies

• Vaccine Clears Path for Recovery but Not out of the Woods Yet

• 2021 Promises Better Days from Coast to Coast

• Economic Conditions Improve but Bumpy Road Ahead

• Provincial Economies: Diverse yet Together in Experiencing Historic Recession

• Charting a Course for Recovery

• Reopening of Provincial Economies: Different Speed, Scale and Outcomes

• Let the Recovery Begin (Please)!

• The Economic Eclipse

• COVID-19 Recession to Hit Every Province

• Canada’s Economy Enters Uncharted Waters

• Low-key start to the fall for Canada’s housing market

• Navigating Toronto’s frozen pre-construction condo market

• Canada’s housing markets are slowly but unevenly getting busier

• Canada isn’t in a housing starts slump—Ontario is

• Canada’s housing market forecast update

• Canada’s building homes fast─but for how long?

• Canada’s housing market outlook: Sustaining recovery in uncertain times

• More supply and cooling demand ease Canadian rental market pressures in 2024

• The Great Rebuild Seven ways to fix Canada’s housing shortage

• Proof Point: Canadian renters face higher hurdles to accumulating wealth than homeowners

• It’s never been harder to rent in Canada—vacancy rates fall to 35-year low

• Canada’s housing market outlook: A tale of two halves in 2024

• GST measure is a step toward closing Canada’s rental housing gap

• Proof Point: Soaring construction costs will hamper Canada’s homebuilding ambitions

• Proof Point: Canada’s shortage of rental housing could quadruple by 2026

• Canadian housing market outlook: The bottom of the downturn is in sight

• Proof Point: Is Canada becoming a nation of renters?

• It’s review time for the mortgage stress test

• Canadian Housing: A Market In Retreat

• Downgrading our forecast for Canada’s housing market

• Rising interest rates a game-changer for Canada’s housing market

• Budget 2022 is big on housing, but won’t immediately relieve affordability crisis

• The fever breaks: Canada’s housing market will cool but stay strong in 2022

• The Canadian housing market outlook

• Home builders are tackling Canada’s housing supply shortage

• Overheating risk eases as Canadian housing market calms down

• Policy action provides partial fix to Canada’s housing market imbalance

• Hot Canadian housing markets call for a policy response

Hot Canadian housing markets call for a policy response

Steaming-hot Housing Market Conditions Persist Despite Cold February Weather

Super-strong Housing Market is Far from Risk-free

New Year, Same Tight Housing Market Conditions Across Canada

Canada’s housing market headed for another record year in 2021

Spectacular End to a Spectacular Year for Canada’s Housing Markets

• May 1, 2020: Day of Rent Reckoning in Canada?

• Easing the Stress Test, for Now