Time to get real about your personal finances, given what may be coming. We all know the threats. It’s a dodgy world at the moment and the best way to insulate yourself is to either become a nun or a ...

Tomorrow’s inflation report’s expected to be a yawner. Stuck in the mid-2% range. The central bank won’t be jacking or hacking rates for a while. Maybe all year. The housing market will sit on life ...

Bad Bunny aside, last week’s Super Bowl was a dud. I should have heeded the prediction-market betting, which early on pegged the Seahawks as a massive favourite, and switched to the Olympics. But a ...

House sales in Montreal (the second-largest market in Canada) dropped 15% last month. Single-family home deals were off 17%.

Days ago it was planes. Trump would act to crush our aviation industry. This week it’s bridges. In fact, THE bridge – the Gordie Howe $6 billion masterpiece which leaps over the Detroit River and is ...

They all have populations close to 120,000, which is the number of employed people that vanished from the face of our Dominion last month. The labour force dropped by this astonishing number, so even ...

The nation’s second-largest but most self-absorbed housing market tanked last month. You can’t blame the auto sector. There isn’t one. You can’t fault a populist, pugilistic, Trump-baiting government ...

There is an old market adage around the January Barometer, “As January goes, so goes the year.” With the market starting 2026 in positive territory, it adds another constructive signal for equities in ...

Enough Trump. Gaza. Greenland, Mexico. Panama. Canada. Enough drama and politics. All the erudite, well-padded old farts (and the young ones, too) who come to this pathetic blog need a reminder of how ...

“I am sure many Canadians are wondering about whose side NATO will take in a US invasion?” Denis asked this morning. “The world watched (as did NATO) when Trump’s buddy invaded Ukraine. Now Canada is ...

Two years ago the 73-year-old guy who owns 1281 McBride Street – a bungalow in North Van – listed it for $1.6 million. Big lot. Decent four-bedroom house. Hot market. Asking a smallish premium over ...