Beer is a manufacturing business, bringing together production, science and skilled trades. Breweries employ brewers, cellar technicians, packaging operators and quality-control staff. Behind the finished product are fermentation systems, pumps, refrigeration equipment and automated packaging lines that require maintenance and
Thinking of Truck Driving School? Be Safe and Ask Questions.
There are bad actors in every industry, and truck driver training is no exception. Many truck driving schools work hard to prepare students for safe careers behind the wheel. But choosing a school shouldn’t come down to the lowest price
Manufacturing is changing. And not all of it can be blamed on Trump.
Toronto’s manufacturing economy has undergone a significant transformation since COVID-19, but much of that change occurred before the latest U.S. tariffs. In 2019, transportation equipment manufacturing (automotive) accounted for approximately 31% of all manufacturing sales in the Toronto CMA. By
What Truck Driver Job Postings Reveal About Commercial Driver’s Licence Demand in Toronto
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