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The Bank of Canada is pleased to announce the recipient of its 2012 Law Enforcement Award of Excellence for Counterfeit Deterrence. The RCMP Integrated Counterfeit Enforcement Team, based in Surrey, British Columbia, was honoured for the second consecutive year during the annual conference of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police in Sydney, Nova Scotia. […]

Deputy Governor Agathe Côté discusses the challenges of assessing risks to the financial system and describes models developed by the Bank of Canada to identify, measure, and analyze sources of risk.

This issue features three articles that present research and analysis by Bank of Canada staff. The first updates previous Bank estimates of measurement bias in the Canadian consumer price index; the second uses a new term-structure model to analyze the relationship between the short-term policy rate and long-term interest rates; and the third examines indicators of balance-sheet risks at financial institutions in Canada.

The Bank of Canada released its 2013 schedule of key policy interest rate announcements and quarterly Monetary Policy Reports (MPR), and announced that in 2013, it will begin concurrent publication of the MPR with its January, April, July, and October rate announcements.