Housing starts stable in 2023, but demand still outpaces growing supply of apartments
The agency says combined housing starts in the Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa regions dipped 0.5 per cent compared with 2022, totalling 137,915
Business leaders say housing biggest risk to economy: KPMG survey
Business leaders see the housing crisis as the biggest risk to the economy, a new survey from KPMG Canada shows.
CFIB says 200,000 small businesses took new loans to meet CEBA repayment deadline
CFIB president Dan Kelly says many businesses that had to borrow to repay their CEBA loans are facing high interest rates and will be challenged
Need to improve Canadian productivity has reached emergency level, BoC official says
A senior Bank of Canada official says the need to improve productivity has reached an emergency level as the economy faces a future where inflation
Parkland Corp. is looking to sell 157 convenience store and fuel station locations across six provinces, including locations under the Chevron, Ultramar, Pioneer and FasGas
Giant Tiger customer data compromised in incident with third-party vendor
Giant Tiger Stores Ltd. says contact information for some of its customers was compromised in an “incident” linked to a third-party vendor it uses.
BoC expects to cut interest rates this year, governing council split on timing: deliberations
The Bank of Canada expects it will be able to begin cutting interest rates sometime this year, but officials are split on timing.
‘Unambiguously good’: Inflation slows in February as price growth unexpectedly eases
Canada’s annual inflation rate unexpectedly fell to 2.8 per cent last month, amid sharp declines in cellular and internet services as well as slower grocery
National home sales in February up nearly 20% compared with year ago
The Canadian Real Estate Association says February home sales jumped 19.7 per cent compared with a year ago.
Economists expect inflation rate ticked up above 3% last month amid higher gas prices
Economists say inflation likely flared up again in February amid higher gasoline prices, reinforcing the expectation that the journey back to two per cent inflation
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