Why has Canada’s data collection during the pandemic been so bad?

 Michael Wolfson It’s time the federal government used its authority to create critical data infrastructure Canadians are finally beginning to see projections of COVID-19 cases, deaths and needs for intensive-care units from various provinces and the federal government. We are also starting to see simulations that look beyond the next

Most Canadian households are better off than American households

 Photo by Ali Tawfiq on Unsplash By: Michael Wolfson Regardless of whether America is great, or about to be great again, Canadians outrank Americans on household income a new analysis shows. The Economist magazine recently devoted a long section to a profile of Canada with frequent comparisons to the United States. Among the

We need a new kind of weather forecast

 Photo credit: John Badman/The Telegraph via AP By: Michael Wolfson The tornadoes that recently hit the Ottawa area cannot be blamed specifically on global climate change. But they are consistent with the long-predicted pattern of increasingly frequent and severe extreme weather events, highlighted in the most recent report of the International

People Need Less Money to Live As They Get Older? If Only.

 Pension plans for teachers, hospital workers and public servants target of study hype By Michael Wolfson Last week the C.D. Howe Institute released a short study just in time for the finance ministers’ meeting – rolling out the tired, old argument that as people age, they do not need as much money