Expert: Canada’s carbon tax to increase on April 1 

Published: 25 March 2024

With the federal government under pressure to freeze its planned increase to the carbon tax, policy experts are calling for a clear-eyed debate over the legislation and its role in the country's...

Expert: Consumer-price inflation and U.S. monetary policy (Feb. 14, 2018)

Published: 13 February 2018

“Analysts forecast U.S. consumer price inflation, to be released on Wednesday, to have slowed to 1.9 percent in January from a year earlier, while the core measure is seen ticking down to 1.7...

Interest rates - Bank of Canada meeting (July 12, 2017)

Published: 11 July 2017

“For months the consensus has been that interest rates in Canada would remain stable right into 2018. Now Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz and his colleagues are dropping broad hints that the...

Opinion: Alberta's biofuels policies belong in the history books

Published: 31 October 2016

« Alberta will soon have an economy-wide carbon price. Over time, it will reduce the province’s greenhouse gas emissions and drive the innovation and cost reductions crucial for the future...

Canadian dollar's decline

Published: 13 January 2016

The Canadian dollar has dropped below the 70-cent US level for the first time since May 2003 yesterday. It's still worth below 70-cent today. (Source: CBC and Google Finance)

US Interest Rates

Published: 16 December 2015

The U.S. central bank began raising interest rates Dec. 16 from record lows, as it hiked its benchmark rate by a quarter of a percentage point. (Source: CBC)...

Federal election 2015

Published: 8 October 2015

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