Anyway, the whole notion of a land-locked region with a scant five million people in it becoming a sovereign nation is bonkers. Smith should never have played footsie with economic lightweights or ...

However, since the main motivation of most Canadians is to get up in the morning and figure out how to screw the banks, rates matter. People want to win, and lenders to lose. So they’re willing to ...

There are 8.4 million people in Canada who are now 65 or older. That’s 20% of the population. Of those, 7.5 million old snorts are collecting OAS monthly payments. That includes just over a hundred ...

Buying a house is a form of forced savings by paying the mortgage every month and maybe in 25 – 30 years you might actually ...

The wire was an inch thick and caused nothing but problems.

Capital markets are enormously complex yet surprisingly simple. They’ll always tilt, on a risk-adjusted basis, in the direction where there’s the greatest opportunity to make money. This is one reason ...

But it isn’t. This is dog-whistle politics, classically blaming outsiders, or ‘them’ for wrongs being committed against ...

As suggested here a few days ago, PSPP is now the Quebec premier. Yeah, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is a separatist. He’d give that province its own constitution, draft a proclamation of independence and ...

Days ago we dumped on the BC prem’s desperate election promise to tax unsold condos. It’s kneejerk, unschooled and achingly populist. People hate developers. So, whack ‘em. If it screws up the housing ...

Poor Mark. His dad died. Sad but inevitable. Not inevitable, however, was the bad decision the old guy made – to name both M and his bro (who lives in the UK) as co-executors of his estate. “I’ve read ...