Over the past few years this province’s manufacturing sector has been one of the brighter lights, often filling the gap left by declining commodity prices which …
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Weak Inflation Rate Signals Relative Strength of the Economy
If you want to see the impact of tough times in the oil patch on the broader economy, just look at the latest inflation numbers. The oil producing provinces are …
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Is This the Sign We’ve Waited For?
When we get the monthly reports on building permits, it has not generally been a good news event. In broad terms, we have gotten used to seeing that things are …
There’s More of Us But We Can Better
It might be time to start talking about this again. Twenty years ago, at the height of a 25-year run of losing people from this province, we began to talk in …
We’re Better than We Think
These are a couple years old but it turns out figures on Saskatchewan’s economic growth rate between 2015 and 2017 was actually better than …
Dare We Say It?
There is a growing consensus among the bank economists that Saskatchewan’s economy will have trouble achieving one percent growth this year. But they may not …