The quarterly reports or forecasts on the provincial economy issued by the nation’s chartered banks are starting to flow. And there is a consistency …
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A Good Omen – Retail Sales Rise
The easiest way to track consumer spending is through the monthly report on retail sales volumes. It compiles total revenues at stores and the like to see …
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A Nice Bump
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 …
