Finances of the Nation

Finances of the Nation (FON) is devoted to creating data and doing research on public finance in Canada. We’ve got a number of new initiatives to support that goal bit.ly/2Ocol5i.

Excited to launch the Third Annual Student Infographics Competition for 2025/26! This year’s focus is on trade, tariffs, and (policy) tradeoffs. Top prize of $500, and runner-up prize of $300. Details here: financesofthenation.ca/student-infogr… #takeecon #cdnpoli #cdnecon

Finances of the Nation and the @LazaridisSchool are thrilled to announce the winner of the third annual 2025 Infographic Competition is Hannah Tsui and Matthew Tang of Corpus Cristi College! Details here: financesofthenation.ca/2025/07/29/win… #cdnecon #takeecon

We're thrilled to announce the winner of the 2024 Finances of the Nation and @LazaridisSchool Infographic Competition is Gabriel Louër of the University of Winnipeg!! Congratulations Gabriel! 🥳 Details here: financesofthenation.ca/2024/07/04/inf… #cdnecon

The 7th Empirical Microeconomics Workshop in Banff will be June 8 and 9, 2024! 🥳 Application deadline is fast approaching (Feb 2). The workshop will focus on empirical microeconomic research on political economy. Details here: sites.google.com/site/econatuof… #cdnecon

We're pleased to announce the Government Revenue and Expenditure database is now updated to 2022/23! Check it out here: financesofthenation.ca/real-fedprov/ #cdnecon 👇

We'd also like to celebrate once again Evan Clementino's fabulous work from last year's competition: financesofthenation.ca/2023/08/11/win… 🥳

Get ready for the 2nd Annual Student Infographic Competition 2023/24! 🎉 Join us and @LazaridisSchool to explore the latest public finance data and share your insights!! 📊✨ #takeecon #cdnecon Find out more: financesofthenation.ca/student-infogr…

Don't miss what nearly 4,000 people have already tried over the past couple days: a fully-interactive Alberta Pension Plan simulator! 👇 Learn what different scenarios means for an APP: financesofthenation.ca/2023/10/03/a-n… #cdnecon #cdnpoli #ableg

With the pros and cons of an Alberta Pension Plan being discussed, our new tool might help sort through all the possibilities! An APP simulator!! 🥳🤓👇 financesofthenation.ca/2023/10/03/a-n… #ableg #cdnecon

Review the latest federal Fiscal Monitor data for July 2023! Our current forecast for the budget deficit this year is now $60 billion, an increase from prior forecasts. financesofthenation.ca/2023/10/01/the… #cdnecon #cdnpoli

Our national balance sheet data is now updated to the latest for Q2 2023! 🥳 financesofthenation.ca/national-balan… #cdnecon

Congratulations to @LazaridisSchool economics graduate, Evan Clementino -- winner of the inaugural Finances of the Nation Infographic competition!! 🥳 See his work and details here: financesofthenation.ca/2023/08/11/win… #cdnecon

Want to learn more about capital gains tax reform in Canada? We're excited to share a new simulation tool to explore different possibilities!! financesofthenation.ca/2023/04/04/a-c… #cdnecon

This is a new tool that will automatically update to the latest monthly financial data and construct a summary of changes to actuals and projections. We hope this will be useful for Canadians to understand federal finances in real-time.

What's the state of federal finances? And where might we be headed this fiscal year? Check out the latest from @FONCanada and its shiny new FoNBot summarizing recent data! financesofthenation.ca/2023/01/31/the… #cdnecon #cdnpoli

Our national balance sheet data is now updated to reflect the latest for Q3 2022 released today! financesofthenation.ca/national-balan… #cdnecon

With today's major release from @StatCan_eng, we've updated our Federal Fiscal Balances dataset. financesofthenation.ca/federal-fiscal…

Our debt sustainability simulator now includes the Fall Economic Statement 2022 projections into its medium-term calculations. Details here: financesofthenation.ca/fiscal-gap-sim…

Finances of the Nation is excited to launch a new student infographic competition! Explore the latest public finance and economic data and share your insights. Details: financesofthenation.ca/student-infogr… #cdnecon

No 'free lunch' with debt-financed government spending. Read the latest from @bev_dahlby and @ergete_f on why there is still a fiscal cost of borrowing even if r<g: financesofthenation.ca/2022/10/20/no-… #cdnecon