Manufacturing: It's a sector of the Saskatchewan economy that has been quietly chugging along while many in the rest of the country were retrenching because of …
Saskatchewan
Less to spend, more to save
It is something of a return to the good old days. Forty years ago, the average Canadian put roughly 20 per cent of their monthly paycheque into savings. In …
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 …
Let the combines roll
The annual Saskatchewan mega-project we call harvest is underway. Combines are working their way through early maturing parts of the rotation, while other …
New vehicle sales driving forward
Consumers are feeling pretty good about big-ticket purchases these days. That starts with new vehicles. The arrival of the pandemic lockdown in March was …
Economic fallout forecast
The economics branch of RBC Royal Bank is the first of the major chartered banks to take a stab at just how much the economy has been damaged by the …