Armine is the Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers and a leading voice on Canada’s economic scene.

Before the pandemic, she was senior economic policy advisor to the federal Deputy Minister of Employment and Social Development Canada, whose budget is seven percent of GDP. During the pandemic she coined the term she-cession and raised awareness of the scale and role of the care economy, serving on a high-level federal task group.

Armine advanced the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Inequality Project from 2006 to 2016. She provided weekly business commentary for CBC radio and CBC TV from 2011 to 2018. From 2020 to 2024 she wrote a highly-regarded business column for the Toronto Star, providing big-picture thinking about economic trends affecting policy and lives. Armine has written for all of Canada’s major publications, including the Globe and Mail, National Post, Macleans and The Walrus. She appeared regularly on TVO’s nightly current affairs program, The Agenda with host Steve Paikin, and has been featured in Reuters, Washington Post, Al Jazeera and The Guardian.

Armine is Vice-President of the Canadian Association for Business Economics. She has a bilingual honours undergraduate degree in economics from Glendon College of York University, and a graduate degree in labour policy for the University of Toronto’s Centre for Industrial Relations.

Her most recent work focuses on private equity’s growing presence in the care economy, and how to safeguard the quality of the services and jobs Canadians rely on.