The Conference Board of Canada has just released a report on Canada's most attractive cities for talent, and a comparison with other cities around the world. The report, entitled City Magnets: Benchmarking the Attractiveness of Canada’s CMAs gives an overview of how cities rank on the features that make Canadian cities attractive to skilled workers and mobile populations. A looming demographic crunch threatens to generate labour shortages in Canadian cities, so cities without the ability to act as magnets and attract new people will struggle to stay prosperous in the decades ahead. The full study uses report-card rankings of outcomes, or proxies for outcomes, to show how attractive our cities are to people. The performance of 27 census metropolitan areas is compared across seven different domains: Economy, Health, Society, Housing, Environment, Innovation, and Education. A second, less detailed analysis, also ranks Canada’s 27 CMAs against 27 U.S. cities. While Calgary finished first ahead of Toronto and Vancouver, when compared against US cities, Washington,D.C. was first, Austin,TX second, and Calgary finished only third. Toronto and Vancouver were only in 15 and 16 place respectively, behind most of the large US cities such as New York, Boston, San Francisco, Houston, etc. the report can be found at:
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