Economic Trends 

Metro Housing Starts
Starts rise in many markets, but expectations remain largely negative.

Canada’s Housing Market Over-Valued?
It’s nowhere near about to correct drastically, as the OECD seems to suggest.

Leading Indicator of Profitability Index
Improvements in service industries are supporting the profit Index.

Organizational Performance 

Women and Leadership
Attitudes about advancing women into senior management roles are still polarized along gender lines.

Insider Threats
Rogue employees might deliberately or inadvertently cause harm to the whole organization.

Nutrition in the Workplace
Two-thirds of Canadian organizations responding to our survey offer nutrition programs.

Public Policy 

Making Skills Work in Ontario
Many Ontario employers can’t find skilled people to fill positions.

Transnational Supply Chains
Global supply chains include embedded vulnerabilities that aren’t fully understood.

Enhancing Canada’s Farming Enterprises
This report considers the state of farming business in Canada.

Events

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Webinars

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Data

Leading Indicator of Industry Profitablility May 2013, CBoC	0.06
Employment, Canada May 2013, CANSIM	17,749
Help Wanted Apr 2013, CBoC	0.7

• About economic data

Infographic

• View the Perceptions of Women in Senior Positions infographic

Video

• Paul Forgues discusses how Canadian organizations spend their community investment dollars | En français

Chart

• Read The Future of Postal Service in Canada
• Lisez L’avenir du service postal au Canada

Centre for Food in Canada
Food impacts Canadians in an extraordinary range of ways. It affects our lives, our health, our jobs, and our economy.

Centre for Business Innovation
This Centre is a five-year initiative to help bring about major improvements in firm-level business innovation in Canada.

Global Commerce Centre
The Centre helps leaders respond effectively to the rapidly changing global business operating environment.

How Canada Performs
A Report Card on Canada—Assesses Canada’s quality of life compared to that of its peer countries.

Canadian Alliance for Sustainable Health Care
This Centre will provide insightful, forward-looking, quantitative analysis of the sustainability of the Canadian health-care system and its facets.

CIBC Scholar-in-Residence
This initiative actively engages renowned scholars in Conference Board advanced research programs.

Centre for the North
This Centre will provide insights into how Canada can best address the enormous challenges and opportunities in its Northern regions.

Saskatchewan Institute
This Institute is a multi-year initiative that will focus exclusively on issues relevant to Saskatchewan.