Timing is everything: how Canada got into a pandemic economy — and how it might get out
This is the second article in a series looking at some of the lessons learned from the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic and how Canada moves…
5 green infrastructure projects engineers recommend to boost COVID-19 economic recovery
With at least two million jobs lost across Canada due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the economy officially in recession, more stimulus is expected from the federal…
Canada’s economy shrank at 8% pace in the first three months of 2020, worst since 2009
Canada's economy shrank at an 8.2 per cent annual pace in the first three months of 2020, as an already weak economy in January and February was…
MacKay, O’Toole pitch pandemic recovery plans heavy on tax incentives, fiscal prudence
MacKay, O'Toole pitch pandemic recovery plans heavy on tax incentives, fiscal prudence, Peter MacKay and Erin O'Toole, the two leading contenders to replace Andrew Scheer as leader…
Housing market will feel effect of COVID-19 until 2022, CMHC says
Canada's national housing agency says the number of new homes being built and sold will remain below the levels they were at before COVID-19 until 2022 at…
COVID-19 may be the catalyst — not the cause — of a painful but useful economic transformation: Don Pittis
COVID-19, As people are thrown out of work, as businesses fail and as the oil and housing sectors weaken, there is a branch of economics that insists…
Fear on tap as COVID-19 chokes off small brewery sales
Canadians have been lining up outside liquor stores and stocking up on alcohol to make staying at home during the coronavirus pandemic more palatable, but craft beer…
Minimal hit to economic growth from rail blockades, PBO says in new report
Parliament's spending watchdog says a series of rail blockades last month will leave a minimal dent in the pace of economic growth. The report today estimates the…
Bank of Canada makes emergency interest rate cut
The Bank of Canada has made an unexpected rate cut, cutting the central bank's benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to 0.75 per cent.The central bank…
Assessing whether 2020 will bring a Canadian property tumble: Don Pittis
Assessing whether 2020 will bring a Canadian property tumble: Don Pittis According to fresh data, the Canadian real estate market is booming again. In a world where…
7 reasons Canada could escape economic doom Don Pittis
For those looking for some fresh economic bad news last week, it wasn't hard to find. On Friday, the country that is now by some measures the…