For nearly two decades, The Conference Board’s Centre for Municipal Studies has produced quarterly Economic forecasts for Canada’s Census Metropolitan Areas. While keeping a strong economic component, the Centre’s research agenda now encompasses all the socio-economic factors necessary to enable a city to become dynamic, prosperous and attractive to new business opportunities and a skilled workforce. These forecasts have provided key insights for both public and private sector decision makers since 1997. So what does 2015 and 2016 hold in store?
Don’t miss this chance to find out how local economies are faring in this coast-to-coast presentation of the economic outlook for 22 Canadian cities. The Centre for Municipal Studies has found that many of the covered cities are among the fastest growing in the country, on track to post solid economic growth this year, while just one area is expected to experience a recession. We’ll discuss which areas fare better than others, as well as the reasons why in this presentation.
This 60 minute webinar will be comprised of analysis for cities whose populations range between 50,000 and 500,000, based on the Conference Board’s exclusive Metropolitan Outlook forecast. These cities have been broken into 5 distinct regions of Canada:
- Atlantic Canada: St. John’s, Moncton, Saint John
- Quebec: Sherbrooke, Saguenay, Trois-Rivières, Rimouski
- Southern Ontario: Kingston, Oshawa, Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge, London, St. Catharines-Niagara, Windsor
- Northern Ontario: Thunder Bay, Sudbury, Timmins, Sault Ste. Marie
- Western Canada: Brandon, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Red Deer, Abbotsford-Mission
