Economic Trends 

Photo of a residential house under constructionMetro Housing Starts
Starts rise in many markets, but expectations remain largely negative.

Photo of the front of a houseCanada’s Housing Market Over-Valued?
It’s nowhere near about to correct drastically, as the OECD seems to suggest.

Image of bar chartLeading 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 

Image of a blue puzzle piece pulled out of a line of white onesMaking Skills Work in Ontario
Many Ontario employers can’t find skilled people to fill positions.

Photo of stacked shipping containersTransnational Supply Chains
Global supply chains include embedded vulnerabilities that aren’t fully understood.

Photo of a farmer holding a basket of produceEnhancing Canada’s Farming Enterprises
This report considers the state of farming business in Canada.


Events

HR Essentials for High Performance—Online Conference
Jun 20-24 |

Forecasting Summit with Alberta Finance
Jul 4 | Calgary

HR 2013: Innovation Within and Beyond HR
Sep 23-24 | Toronto

Webinars

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

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Special Projects

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.