Reports
Our reports drive the national conversation and provide policymakers with compelling, actionable ideas to address Canada’s most critical policy issues. Reports produced from 2012 onwards can be found here.
Build Big Things
For too long, Canada has been content to muddle in the slow lane when what is needed — now more than ever — is a breathtaking build out. Here’s how to do it.
Mining Canada’s Health Data
A roadmap to the ultimate nation-building project
Refuel
What Canadian LNG and oil exports could mean for global emissions
The Lost Estate
Rebuilding a flourishing ecosystem of local news will require a strengthened web of connections linking news organizations to the communities they cover
Catching the Wind
The game-changing potential of offshore wind power in Atlantic Canada, combined with an ambitious vision to develop it as an urgent national project, could turn the region into an energy superpower.
Canada’s super sectors
A focused strategy for economic growth
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Help wanted
Solving Atlantic Canada’s growing labour force challenge
The Great News Rebuild
How local media can rescue itself
Nuclear powerhouse
A playbook to unlock Canada’s SMR advantage
Uncovered
Canada’s parliamentary system means we vote for local representatives — so what happens during a federal election when the local news prism fades away?
Canada’s Code Red
Why Canada’s health security emergency demands a new sense of urgency around its life sciences sector — and how the fix could yield both health and economic returns
Free Atlantic: Unlocking Regional Growth
The high costs of internal trade barriers in Atlantic Canada and the outsized benefits of removing them
How Canada can best respond to the U.S. trade war
An analysis of how damaging the U.S. tariffs will be on Canada and the U.S. and potential Canada-led strategies to respond.
Flipping the Script
“When a significant portion of Canada’s human capital is under-utilized, policymakers must treat it as an urgent economic problem and respond with all available tools.”
Industrial Revolutionary
AI is destined to transform just about everything — including the Canadian economy