Federal Deficits Then and Now: Is Canada Repeating the Fiscal Mistakes of 1965 to 1995? finds that the federal government risks repeating the mistakes of the mid-1960s to mid-1990s—when Ottawa repeatedly ran deficits and racked up massive amounts of debt—that nearly led to a currency and debt crisis in Canada.

Lessons from the Lonestar State: Comparing the economic performance of Alberta and Texas finds that Alberta’s annual unemployment rate was lower than the Texas rate every year from 2004 to 2014. But after the 2014 drop in oil prices, the situation reversed, with Texas enjoying a lower annual unemployment rate—in some years, a much lower rate—than Alberta. For example, Alberta’s unemployment rate peaked at 7.2 per cent in 2016 while the Texas rate stayed below 5 per cent from 2014 to 2018.

Canadian Consumer Tax Index 2019 finds that last year the average Canadian family spent 44 per cent of its income on taxes, more than housing, food and clothing costs combined, which made up just 36.3 per cent. The annual study tracks the total tax bill of the average Canadian household from 1961 to 2018, and looks at both visible and hidden taxes that families pay to the federal, provincial and local governments, including income, payroll, sales, property, health, fuel and alcohol taxes, and more.