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Getting back to Growth: Measuring Recovery across Canada’s Innovation Corridor

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November 10, 2021

 

On October 1st, the Toronto Region Board of Trade, through its Economic Blueprint Institute (EBI),  launched the Recovery Tracker, a web-based tool that provides critical information on a monthly basis on the state of recovery across the Innovation Corridor* and its business districts. While a number of trackers assess national and/or provincial economic recovery, TRBOT’s Recovery Tracker is focused on a metropolitan scale of analysis and provides insights on how specific employment areas, or Business Districts, have been impacted by the pandemic.

Data in the Recovery Tracker includes: Labour Market indicators, Mobility trends, and In-person and E-commerce Consumer Spending among other indicators. In its first release, the Recovery Tracker pointed to an uneven economic recovery across different Business Districts in the Corridor, with the Metropolitan Centre (Toronto’s financial district and the surrounding area) experiencing one of the slowest economic recovery.

In this event, Marcy Burchfield and Saad Usmani will present the Business District framework as a valuable tool for economic planning as well as key findings from insights derived from the Recovery Tracker. The framework was introduced in Shaping our Future, a playbook for rebooting and reimagining Toronto’s regional economy.

* The Innovation Corridor comprises the five Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) of Oshawa, Toronto, Hamilton, Guelph and Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo

 

Resources

Download the slides in PDF format:  TABE Webinar – Getting Back to Growth – Measuring Recovery across Canada’s Innovation Corridor

Toronto Region Board of Trade, Economic Blueprint Institute report:  Shaping our Future

 

Marcy Vice President of the Economic Blueprint Institute, Toronto Region Board of Trade Marcy Burchfield

Marcy Burchfield is the Vice President of the Economic Blueprint Institute (EBI), a strategic initiative of the Toronto Region Board of Trade with a mandate of turning data into direction to influence policy.

089314b_econstudents040 Director of Economic Research, Economic Blueprint Institute, Toronto Region Board of Trade Saad Usmani

Saad Usmani is the Director of Economic Research at EBI. Saad leads the institute’s efforts to develop data driven insights to help make Toronto region among the top globally competitive business regions. The institute’s work applies a data driven approach to solving for regional problems that intersect policy issues and require unique place-based solutions.

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