Online job postings provide more than a measure of how many employers are looking for truck drivers. When advertisements specify a commercial driver’s licence, they can also provide insight into the type of truck-driving demand emerging across different parts of
Toronto’s Colleges and Universities: An Economic Engine for Ontario
Toronto’s public colleges and universities make a substantial contribution to the economies of both the city and Ontario. The eight institutions in this chart recorded more than 321,000 enrolments in 2024/25, including over 87,000 international enrolments. To put that scale
More Than a Licence: Understanding Ontario’s Commercial Truck Driver Licensing Pathway
Every product on a store shelf, every shipment arriving at a construction site, and every online order delivered to a customer’s doorstep has one thing in common: someone drove it there. Transport truck drivers are the backbone of Ontario’s supply
What is Toronto?
We seem to refer to Toronto a lot in statistics. But it can mean different things to different people at……different times. Imagine leaving Toronto City Hall in 1961. You would be leaving Old City Hall; the building we know today
Canada Still Outperforms the OECD: But PISA Scores Continue to Slide
Amid the attention paid to tariffs and artificial intelligence, another economic story deserves much more attention: what Canada’s young people are learning. Access to markets matters. So does access to technology. But neither removes the need for people who can
AI at Work: Mind the Gap
AI headlines have taken a dramatic turn lately, with researchers and technology experts in the area warning that increasingly powerful AI systems could eventually pose risks to humanity. While much of that conversation is about what might happen months or
Tariff Tensions Reshape Canadian Travel
As tariff and political tensions between Canada and the United States have escalated, Canadians began changing where they travelled. Canadian-resident border crossings returning from the United States fell 25.4% in 2025. At Toronto Pearson, transborder passenger traffic declined 8.3%, while
Are Lake Ontario Fish Dual Citizens?
President Trump is considering renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America.” He has also caught fish and seafood in his tariff net: 25% U.S. tariffs briefly applied to Canadian seafood in March 2025 before being suspended, while Canada is now preparing a
While We Wait for a Tariff Deal
Right now, Canada is locked in negotiations over the US’s threat to impose 50% Tariffs on Canadian goods. Donald Trump’s tariffs and repeated tariff threats created real uncertainty for Ontario employers, particularly in manufacturing, steel, autos and other trade-dependent sectors. That
Toronto Gas Prices Not Immune
Toronto is not immune from events far beyond Canada’s borders. Gas prices at the pump can move quickly in response to wars, geopolitical tensions and disruptions to global energy markets as seen afer Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and