Discusses major economic issues, topics that affect the Quebec economy and sector-based analyses.
- Retail Trade in Quebec: Turbulence Ahead (PDF, 1.87 MB) - This link will open in a new window.
- August 24, 2022
- The Rubber and Plastic Industry: Providing Production Inputs and Food for Thought (PDF, 1.83 MB) - This link
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- June 28, 2022 - Quebec: What’s Left after the Post-recession Recovery? (PDF, 342 KB) - This link will open in a new
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- June 1, 2022 - Commercial Food Service: The Calm after the Storm?
(PDF, 362 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- May 11, 2022 - Quebec’s Electric Battery Industry: The Challenge Will Be to Keep the Momentum Going (PDF, 320 KB) - This
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- March 23, 2022 - Manufacturing in Quebec: Getting Back Up after a Pandemic Tsunami
(PDF, 381 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- March 2, 2022
- Quebec’s Furniture Industry Was Affected by the Pandemic, but Is Recovering (PDF, 352 KB) - This link will
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- December 9, 2021 - The Aerospace Industry Powers Up (PDF, 369 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- October 22, 2021 - Natural Resources: Still One of Quebec’s Economic Assets
(PDF, 410 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- September 1, 2021 - Repatriating Manufacturing: Between Dream and Reality
(PDF, 389 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- May 26, 2021 - Circular Economy: A More Sensible Use of Resources
(PDF, 417 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- March 23, 2021
- Logistics: The Invisible Wheel That Keeps the Economy Rolling (PDF, 366 KB) - This link will open in a new
window.
- December 3, 2020 - The Wood Processing Industry: Walking a Tightrope
(PDF, 393 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- October 29, 2020 - Machinery Manufacturing: At the Centre of the Economy (PDF, 360 KB) - This link will open in a new
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- August 24, 2020 - Creative Industries: A New Post-containment Economic Engine? (PDF, 350 KB) - This link will open in a new
window.
- May 7, 2020 - The Arts, Entertainment and Recreation Sector: A Little-Known Economic Player
(PDF, 393 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- March 5, 2020
- The Printing Industry: Handling the Shift with Skill
(PDF, 317 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- December 17, 2019 - Buying Local: Nothing Fringe about It
(PDF, 389 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- November 29, 2019 - The Trucking Industry: At the Heart of the Economy
(PDF, 348 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- October 17, 2019 - The Packaging Industry: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
(PDF, 356 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- September 16, 2019 - Retirees in Quebec: A Family Picture (PDF, 442 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- August 15, 2019 - Welcome to the 21st Century: Industrial Bioproducts
(PDF, 1.83 MB) - This link will open in a new window.
- May 17, 2019 - Disruptive Technologies: Questions That Go beyond the Economy (PDF, 1.85 MB) - This link will open in a new
window.
- April 10, 2019 - Life Sciences in Quebec: A Booming Industry (PDF, 1.86 MB) - This link will open in a new
window.
- March 7, 2019 - Metal Product Fabrication: Investing in the Future (PDF, 1.83 MB) - This link will open in a new
window.
- February 7, 2019
- Lumber: A Lull after an Exceptional Year (PDF, 1.85 MB) - This link will open in a new window.
- December 18, 2018 - Can Quebec Businesses Remain Optimistic for Much Longer? (PDF, 1.85 MB) - This link will open in a new
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- November 1st, 2018 - Retail Trade: Carving Out a Niche, and Holding On to It (PDF, 1.83 MB) - This link will open in a new
window.
- October 4, 2018 - Advanced Materials: The Future Is Now (PDF, 1.83 MB) - This link will open in a new window.
- September 5, 2018 - The Commercial Food Service Industry: Coming Through! (PDF, 1.85 MB) - This link will open in a new
window.
- July 5, 2018 - Hotel Operators: Full Speed Ahead (PDF, 1.85 MB) - This link will open in a new window.
- May 31st, 2018 - Electric Vehicles: Should We Believe the Rumour? (PDF, 1.80 MB) - This link will open in a new
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- April 24, 2018 - Quebec and Ontario: A Powerful Economic Force (PDF, 1.85 MB) - This link will open in a new
window.
- March 15, 2018
- Quebec’s Manufacturing Industry Pushes Back (PDF, 1831 KB) - This link will open in a new
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- December 19, 2017 - New Technologies: Hardly a Quiet Revolution (PDF, 1875 KB) - This link will open in a new
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- November 30, 2017 - Quebec’s tightening labour market (PDF, 1916 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- November 1st, 2017 - Quebec’s textile industry embraces technology
(PDF, 1879 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- September 27, 2017 - E-commerce Is Here to Stay (PDF, 1902 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- August 29, 2017 - The Furniture Industry Regains Some of Its Lustre (PDF, 1,862 KB) - This link will open in a new
window.
- July 5, 2017 - Quebec’s mining industry is here to stay (PDF, 237 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- May 19, 2017 - Montreal has yet to say its last word (PDF, 389 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- April 5, 2017 - Poverty in Quebec still exists (PDF, 491 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- March 8, 2017 - Trade between Quebec and the United States - Banking on each party’s strengths
20% of Quebec’s GDP depends on exports to the United States(PDF, 491 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- January 31, 2017
- Lumber: Another episode in a long battle (PDF, 356 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- December 20, 2016 - The sharing economy: A black box (PDF, 398 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- November 2016 - Professional, scientific and technical services: then and now (PDF, 458 KB) - This link will open in a new
window.
- October 2016 - New technologies: progress in robotization
An economic look at a global phenomenon (PDF, 425 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- September 2016 - Youth aged 15 to 24 just keep on changing... (PDF, 582 KB) - This link will open in a new
window.
- June 2016 - The plastics and composites industry: Being on the ball to stay in the game (PDF, 709 KB) - This link will
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- May 2016 - The recycling industry: A world to discover, a drive to build the future (PDF, 327 KB) - This link will open
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- April 2016 - The clothing and fashion industry is preparing to slug it out with the competition (PDF, 403 KB) - This link
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- March 2016 - The underground economy
overshadows the official economy (PDF, 526 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- February 2016 - Printing: The coming years promise to be turbulent (PDF, 359 KB) - This link will open in a new
window.
- January 2016
- Self-employment in Quebec: a brief foray (PDF, 623 KB) - This link will open
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- December 2015 - The wood product and pulp and paper industries: between tradition and innovation (PDF, 604 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- October-November 2015 - Demographic projections, the regions and thoughts about the future (PDF, 669 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- September 2015 - Buying local: a phenomenon not to be ignored (PDF, 635 KB) - This link will open in a
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- July 2015 - Ecodesign: When the environment and the economy work together (PDF, 629 KB) - This
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- June 2015 - Quebec's economy through the lens of GDP: Gains outweigh losses (PDF, 525 KB) - This
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- April-May 2015 - Restaurants: Headwinds buffet the industry (PDF, 567 KB) - This link will open in a
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- March 2015 - Has the labour force participation rate among seniors really increased in Quebec? (PDF, 608 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- February 2015 - Quebec's hotel sector: beyond appearances (PDF, 656 KB) - This link will open in a new
window.
- January 2015
- The labour market: Behind the scenes
There's no such thing as the "average" unemployed worker (PDF, 584 KB) - This link will open in a new window.
- November 2014 - Retail trade: Time to take stock (PDF, 604 KB)
- October 2014 - Quebec's manufacturing sector after the disillusionments of the 2000 decade (PDF, 605 KB)
- September 2014 - Renovations: transitioning from a nomadic way of life to a more settled one (PDF, 568 KB)
- June 2014 - Business bankruptcies: Economic situation, knowledge gaps and differences (PDF, 575 KB)
- May 2014 - Quebecers and their automobiles: A love story (PDF, 602 KB)
- April 2014 - B2C e-commerce: catching up to a moving train (PDF, 574 KB)
- March 2014 - The repatriation of manufacturing: beyond the rhetoric (PDF, 549 KB)
- February 2014 - A full plate for the fabricated metal products industry (PDF, 547 KB)
- January 2014
- Quebec and BRICS: A relationship with a future (PDF, 560 KB)
- December 2013 - Between the real and the virtual: The video game industry in Quebec (PDF, 553 KB)
- November 2013 - Globalization in action: the retail trade in Quebec (PDF, 529
KB)
- October 2013 - Quebec's 17 regions: many ways to achieve growth (PDF, 615
KB)
- September 2013 - Montreal: Being a metropolis is a full-time job (PDF,
683 KB)
- June–July 2013 - The forest industry: Things are looking up (PDF, 101
KB)
- May 2013 - What Quebec sectors have potential? (PDF, 147
KB)
- April 2013 - Employment: The healthcare and social assistance
sector is advancing at a good pace, but how long will this last? (PDF, 104 KB)
- March 2013 - Is Quebec experiencing a labour shortage? How can we
know for sure? (PDF, 118 KB)
- February 2013 - Should we worry about rising cereal prices like we do
about oil prices? (PDF, 139 KB)
- January 2013