The Canadian economy is skating on the edge of a recession. We haven’t hit it yet, but it is about as close as you get without being in one.There have been …
Economy
Interest rates on hold
When the Bank of Canada issued its decision this week to stand pat on interest rates, it was largely what everyone expected. The Canadian economy is having …
Read beyond the headline
The headline on the story suggests farm incomes fell by 45 per cent in 2018. Technically, that’s correct if you look at what accountants call total net income. …
Low Prices Undo Low Prices
Declaring the bottom of the housing market in Canada has been passed, the economics unit at RBC Royal Bank says we are, at last, on the road to …
Decentralizing Canada
One of the largely unspoken tensions that has gripped this country since the 1960s has been decentralization. That is the gradual shift of economic and …
Sask’s underlying strength
While most of the economic headlines in Saskatchewan tend to focus on commodity prices or the state of the housing market – two areas that have been struggling …
