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Canada at 159: The Story Behind the Numbers
Taking Stock of Canada at 159: Strong Fundamentals, Real Pressures At its core, the story of Canada is about a lot more than economics. It’s about values, choices, an...
Food Insecurity in Canada: A Crisis Our Social Safety Net Was Never Designed to Handle
Food insecurity in Canada is rising — new policy responses are needed 👉 About 1 in 4 Canadians are living in food-insecure households, including around 2.5 million ch...
Taxes & Tradeoffs: How We Pay for Canada
Taxation. Perhaps the most hotly debated topic in public life — but one of the hardest to discuss honestly. In this episode of The Politics of Money: An IFSD Podcast, ...
Bonus Live Event: Hunger in a Time of Rising Food Costs: The Immediate and Sustained impact of Food Insecurity
Food insecurity is not just a social issue — it’s an economic, health, and productivity challenge with lasting consequences for Canada. In this special live event host...
Spring Fiscal Update — Quick Reaction from IFSD
In our The Politics of Money Fiscal Update Reaction episode, IFSD's Kevin Page, President and CEO, Sahir Khan, Executive VP, and Mostafa Askari, Chief Economist, share...
Checking under the hood: What we're looking for in the Fiscal Update
🎙️ CHECKING UNDER THE HOOD | IFSD's Fiscal Update Preview Ahead of the government’s spring Economic and Fiscal Update, The Politics of Money brings together IFSD Presi...
It’s not you — it’s the system. Government Spending Estimates Are Too Confusing
Bonus: Estimates Explained Each year, Parliament is asked to approve hundreds of billions of dollars in public spending through the Main Estimates. And each year, conf...
Canada in a Fractured World–Stéphane Dion in Conversation with Kevin Page
What holds a country together when pressures—internal and external—keep rising? In this episode of The Politics of Money, IFSD’s President Kevin Page sits down with St...
Politics of Money: An IFSD Podcast Trailer
Hosted by Kevin Page and Sahir Khan, IFSD's new podcast examines how money moves through government and how public finance shapes political choices. 🎙️ Smart, fact-bas...
New PBO Nomination: Kevin Page, Sahir Khan and Mostafa Askari Discuss
The Politics of Money is a new podcast from the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy. Each episode the IFSD team and guests will explore how public finance, polit...