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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Farming in Ontario in the 1960’s was a form of indentured servitude. Below share cropping, financially, with pride of ownership being a farmer’s reward. Farm foreclosures were manifesting Provincially ...

Days ago the PM, the leader of the BC government and various poohbahs announced a plan to inject five billion into the local property market, where few can afford to buy. When it comes to housing its ...

Marney was bruised after that call with her financial guy. “You’d think I was asking him to admit to a murder,” she told me. “But all I wanted to know were the damn fees on my funds.” M deals with a ...