Economic Trends 

Canada’s Next Top Markets
Several markets in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa are new “sweet spots” for Canadian firms.

Resource Prices and the Housing Markets
Softness in prices more likely to weigh down real estate values in certain regions.

Metro Housing Starts
Year-over-year starts down in most markets, more declines likely.

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 

The Learnings, Challenges, and Opportunities of Benchmarking Provincial Health Systems

Provincial Benchmarking
British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario use different approaches to get overall “A” grades in health.

Skills-Led Innovation
Improving innovation performance by empowering employees.

Events

• Full event calendar

Webinars

• Webinar calendar

Data

Employment, Canada May 2013, CANSIM	17,749
Help Wanted Apr 2013, CBoC	0.7
Consumer Confidence May 2013, CBoC	5.1

• 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.