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01How Canada's public-sector employees vote: the Canadian Election Study evidence, Ottawa's ridings, and the union endorsementsPublic-sector workers in Canada lean modestly left of private-sector workers, and most of that lean belongs to unionized professionals and managers. The city crews whose unions endorse the NDP vote much like their private-sector counterparts, and no released poll gives a party-by-party split to settle it.ArticleCanadian economy & policy49 quotes · 1 source · 11 min11 Oct

02Temporary foreign workers and Canadian innovation: what the automation evidence shows, and the study nobody has runThe research that says immigration drives innovation studies points-selected skilled migration. Canada's intake since 2016 has been mostly temporary and low-wage, and the causal work on cheap labour runs the other way — a 1% rise in low-skill wages lifts automation patenting 2–5%. The Canadian version of that study has never been done.ArticleCanadian economy & policy57 quotes · 1 source · 11 min10 Oct

03Immigrants, temporary residents and Canada's job growth since 2020: what the Labour Force Survey can and cannot showNearly all of Canada's post-pandemic job growth went to immigrants and temporary residents. But no Canadian government table publishes that split the way the American one does — every version of the figure is built by hand from an annual series that undercounts the very group it counts.ArticleCanadian economy & policy36 quotes · 1 source · 7 min10 Oct