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Quebec Election Manifesto Analysis

Bonjour à tous et toutes! It’s Quebec’s election day and so we at HESA Towers are here to provide our usual analysis of the party platforms. It’s the first election in 50 years where sovereignty isn’t the main issue on the ballot, partly because PQ leader Jean-Francois Lisée got his party to promise not to hold a referendum if elected and partly because the PQ is so far out of the running – in fourth place, according to some polls

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October 1, 2018 No Comments

Ontario Government Announces Huge Increase in International Student Numbers

[the_ad id=”11745″] Last week, freshman Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli appeared before the Economic Club in Toronto and, reading from the best-selling book “Oh My God Who Knew the Previous Government Left the Finances in Such Terrible Shape: A Guide to Your First Provincial Budget”, announced that the actual, real, pinkie swear, true budget deficit for this year was $15 billion rather than $6 billion and that to help close the gap, Ontario colleges and universities would be asked to increase

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September 25, 2018 No Comments

New Brunswick Manifesto Analysis

Once upon a time, back when Frank McKenna’s was premier, New Brunswick was seen as something of a leader in Canadian public policy.  Balancing budgets, championing official languages, investing in telecommunications and the internet, creating jobs (even if a lot of them were in call centres) – New Brunswick was seen as having understood the nature of the Maritimes’ long-term challenges and moved decisively to address them. It has been awhile since anyone thought of New Brunswick as a policy

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September 24, 2018 No Comments

History of Canadian PSE Part II (to 1940)

If you look at the history of Canadian post-secondary education, there are two particularly notable things going on with respect to the first four decades of the twentieth century.  The first is that western Canada got universities.  And the second is that Eastern universities entered into contracts with the state. East of Winnipeg, very few new universities were created in this period.  Newfoundland (not yet part of Canada) created Memorial University after WWI, and Mount Saint Vincent and Saint Thomas

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September 21, 2018 3 Comments

The Tightening Labour Market

Yesterday, I took a quick trip back to the early part of the decade for a reminder of how bad the “skills shortage” debate of 5-6 years ago was.  Today, I want to talk a little bit about how we may be heading into something like an actual skills shortage right now, and what the parameters of that shortage look like. The best place to look for evidence on general skills shortages is the Bank of Canada’s quarterly Business Outlook Survey.

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September 19, 2018 No Comments

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