Credit card issuers try to entice us to choose theirs over the competitors by offering up points and rewards for every transaction we execute. The points, they …
Economy
Saskatchewan: A Great Place to Live – June 2020
Saskatchewan: A Great Place to Live. People in this province like their brick and mortar stores. When the pandemic lockdown began to lift, we quickly …
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Tracking Consumer Spending, Rent Payments and Payrolls
There’s nothing like a crisis to spark some new ideas. One of them is how we gather up economic information. Before the pandemic hit, we were satisfied with …
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Wallets Flew Open in June
The retail store is not dead. After the COVID lockdown, many Canadians learned the intricacies of shopping on-line, doing curbside pickups and so on because …
Wholesale sector humming
Saskatchewan’s wholesale sector has been somewhat immune from the Covid-19 pandemic. When the monthly figures for June were released by StatsCan they noted …
COVID’s Got Us Moving to the Burbs
In broad terms we have talked about the COVID pandemic as a drag on the economy but there are areas where the exact opposite has happened – where it has sparked …