Posthaste: Brace for the coming labour squeeze as 25,500 Canadians retire every month

Canada’s workforce is shrinking, as record numbers of older Canadians retire and fewer younger workers step up to replace them. For the first time on record, outside the pandemic, the…

David Rosenberg: Is Canada back in a recession? Tiff Macklem better be watching either way

That Canadian real gross domestic product (GDP) shrank at a 0.1 per cent annual rate in the first quarter after…

Posthaste: Recession, what recession? Canada’s economy is doing better than it has in years by this measure

Canadian economic data made international news Friday as the latest reading of gross domestic product earned mentions from everyone from…

Is a technical recession enough to spur the Bank of Canada to cut interest rates?

Canada’s gross domestic product unexpectedly contracted for the second consecutive time to trigger talk of recession , but some economists…

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Team USA’s loudest supporters say FIFA pushed them to upper deck for World Cup

When the U.S. men’s national soccer team plays at home, its most loyal fans traditionally sit right behind a goal…

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Posthaste: U.S. Treasuries just got toppled from the world’s foreign reserve throne

Who are the biggest gold bugs of them all? Central banks apparently. Bullion has now overtaken U.S. Treasuries as the largest share of foreign reserves…

Canada’s economy posts biggest trade surplus since before Trump’s tariffs

Canada posted a trade surplus for the second consecutive month in April, driven primarily by higher prices for oil and energy. The $2.7-billion surplus was…

Canada’s high oil price ‘conundrum’

Karl Schamotta, chief market strategist Corpay, talks about why the Canadian dollar is weaker than you might expect. Bank of Canada not ‘in a rush’…

Posthaste: Why economists say we should ‘fade’ market bets on the Bank of Canada

Last time the Bank of Canada decided on interest rates , market expectations of hikes later this year shot up, as traders zeroed in on…

‘You can’t build a house if you can’t flush the toilet’ — The hidden housing bottleneck that’s lurking beneath cities across Canada

Housing development is increasingly running up against a basic blockage beneath the streets: water and sewer systems that can’t keep up with a city or…

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