Saskatchewan consumers took a little break in May. After several months of steady or strengthening retail spending, we saw a reversal in May as total revenues …
Economy
Discretionary Spending Remains Solid
It turns out we still like heading out for a beer. One of the key metric in assessing consumer confidence or to the test the mood of the average citizen is …
Interest Rates More Likely to Go Down than Up
The indicators are starting to point in the same direction: that interest rates are more likely to fall than to rise. That is something of a contradiction of …
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You Are Who You Are
When you hear complaints about disparity in income levels, they tend to have an overtone suggesting some sort of oppression or grand scheme to keep one group …
Big Surge in Job Numbers
2,500. 5.1%. 9,300. Those are the big ticket figures contained in June’s job numbers for this province. Saskatchewan, it turns out, had one of the stronger …
Farm Ownership Rules Send Immigrants Other Places
Every decade or so we get a flurry of activity on the issue of farm land ownership. This all started back in the 70s when German investors starting acquiring …
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