economy

Canada last had an election in the fall of 2008, after which coalition hilarity ensued. Of course, about the only person to come...

What have you been up to since you left Manulife a year ago? I sit on a number of boards, so I’m as busy as I want to be. I’ve...

Yesterday at the Economic Club of Canada, Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney warned in the strongest possible terms short of...

We have no idea whether Canada’s real estate market is going to grow, shrink, stay the same, or get invaded by martians, but we...

The shockwaves of the 2008 recession are still travelling through the economy, even as countries struggle to get back on their...

Some good news from the Royal Bank today: the ranks of Toronto’s house-poor may decline slightly, as homes in the GTA have...

According to a survey by the Canadian Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS), Toronto is the least-happy place in...

The Bank of Canada released its data on inflation yesterday, and the good news is that inflation is still lower than the breakneck...

In the Toronto Sun , Warren Kinsella notes that this coming Sunday will be the fifth anniversary of Paul Martin ’s defeat in the...

Some of the prime culprits blamed for the crash of the global economy are derivatives traders, those shadowy business folk who...

Weizhen Tang told his investors they deserved to be rich and only he could make them so. Even now, after he lost all their money and was charged with running one of the country’s largest Ponzi schemes, his disciples still want him to keep trading. They believe it’s the only way they’ll get their $30 million back

Apparently, nobody is willing to argue with a straight face that Toronto real estate is a bargain. That’s the lesson we learned...

Toronto’s skyline has changed dramatically over the past decade as condominium towers have sprouted from the Etobicoke lakeshore...

Toronto homebuyers had a rare reason to pay attention to news from Newfoundland this weekend. The Canadian Real Estate Association...

In a principled and well thought-out plan, the Ontario government yesterday announced that, after much public outcry, they will...

Dear Urban Diplomat, Is there anything I can do to relocate the throng of drug addicts that has congregated on the corner of my...

Toronto real estate watchers are abuzz with yesterday's victory for, well, anybody looking to buy a house. The Canadian Real...

One of Toronto’s biggest, most aggravating problems is traffic. In a recent poll about the upcoming mayoral...

Why Doug Saunders, a foreign correspondent for the Globe and Mail , could have called his new book The Torontoification of the...

The stories just keep on coming: Canada has weathered the economic crisis relatively well, thanks to our prudent and stable...

We keep hearing about the amazing Canadian economic rebound—some 300,000 new jobs in the past year. Is Bay Street paving the way...

What is it about old-man accoutrements that hipsters can’t get enough of? After co-opting just about everything vintage...

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Our recovery from the Great Recession happened faster than expected, we got in the mood to...

The G20 summit has mostly wound down, and the result is pretty mediocre: for billions in spending and a few torched police...