Economy, Law & Politics

So, the lame duck has flipped the bird. Last week’s last-gasp Vision Vancouver rezoning of the city to permit duplexes and eventually more in our single-family housing neighbourhoods was a death-bed curse.

Ottawa's directive comes after expansion project was dealt a major blow in August

Surrey Board of Trade hosts discussion on the pros and cons of electoral reform in B.C.

The year of discontent persists for the housing sector as the confluence of federal mortgage stress-testing measures, higher interest rates, provincial policy measures and buyer skittishness continued to weigh on the market.

Q&A | Fundamentals are strong though Canada is vulnerable, says Murray Leith, executive VP and director of investment research for Odlum Brown

Q&A | Downturn not yet on the radar despite Canadian debt and economic uncertainty, says Raymond James Ltd. vice-president Lori Pinkowski

Q&A | Equity markets threatened by inflation, interest rates, according to Matthew Stewart, director of economics for the Conference Board of Canada

Q&A | Jock Finlayson, Business Council of BC executive vice-president and chief policy officer, says Canadian policies helping turn boom to bust

Chances are good that the American “bull run” in equities will continue in 2019, though gains will moderate from 2017 to 2018. The U.S. bull market since the Great Recession of 2008-09 has been the longest in history, but the U.S.

Any projection of the Canadian economy’s trajectory depends heavily upon one’s outlook for the ongoing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations.