Drought conditions across much of the province are casting a bit of a shadow over farmland prices. Prices are still rising – but at the lowest rate in 15 …
Economy
For the People By the People
One by-product of the pandemic and lockdown was strong growth in the area of direct or online investing. It seems many of us were drawn to the idea of managing …
Welcome to Q4
With this summer like weather it can be difficult to remember that we are now entering the final quarter of the year. This is the time when business leaders …
Holding Their Own
Business people in this province demonstrated considerable financial acumen through the pandemic as they pivoted, coped or did what they had to do to survive. …
Stores with Doors
There’s just no substitute for shopping and doing it in person. We should not be writing any obituaries for bricks and mortar or stores with a door. …
The economics unit at CIBC Capital Markets has taken an interesting angle in a piece on COVID – they have tied the economic implications to the linkage between hospital capacity and government response times.
They argue Canada’s lower hospital capacity compared to other industrial countries means available beds fill up faster here than anywhere else. And, when full, …