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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was a solid start to the year, with the S&P 500 and TSX gaining 1.4% and 0.8%, respectively, in January. We pay close attention to January’s performance because it has historically offered insight ...

Not that it was much visible behind a looming snowbank, caked in freezing rain, obliterated by whiteouts and raked by sharp winds, but there she was. My flag. Despite the storm, it was Flag Day in ...

Cody’s started to shed. There was a flock of robins cruising the street yesterday. The sap has started. So, rutting season is at hand. If times were normal, this spring market might be an epic one for ...

“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 ...

The Beatles were playing clubs in Liverpool the year my father achieved the highest salary yet. It was a family accomplishment, so even little Garthy was informed. The old man would be raking in ...