Turns out A is a second-gen Canadian whose parents came here (when the locals were still toleratnt and welcoming) in the Eighties. “They did not have the know-how to teach me anything about investing ...

Yes, by bad policy. And thus we have a complex web of conflicting, uncoordinated, kneejerk, badly-understood policies that make everything worse, elevate conflict and fail to reduce prices. If we just ...

In short when you decide not to tax something, and yet tax everything else, people flock to that something. Demand raises values. Houses quickly become unaffordable. They attract speculators and ...

As asset-class heterogeneity and complexity increases and when price discovery gets less transparent, it creates opportunities which astute managers can exploit. In these instances, active solutions ...

We know the muck is piling up in Ottawa. We know there’ll be an early election. We know who will win. But after that? Will houses become affordable and the kiddos stop whining and moaning? Nah. Not ...

They were not your typical neighbourhood arsonists. They all dressed alike, and quite smartly in matching black pants with tailored hoodies. Then there were the gas cans. New ones, it seems. All ...

Whoa, economist dude. Twelve figures starts at $100,000,000,000 – a hundred billion. Yikes. We haven’t seen red ink like that from the federal government since way back during the pandemic – when the ...

Two restaurants. A general store. A television production company and studio. A bakery. Book publishing company. A professional speaker’s bureau. A country hotel. Six weekly newspapers with printing ...