Down she goes. Both fixed-rate fivers and VRMs are in the 4.5% range. The Bank of Canada delivered its second jumbo rate cut ...

If for some reason you’d been given the highly specific advice five years ago to ‘buy French luxury goods’ you might have bought Hermes International stock and done extremely well (+229%), or you ...

The weekend showed how fast stuff happens. Syria’s dictator and Putin’s buddy was sent packing. Outcomes unknown. Donald Trump told NBC he’ll pardon imprisoned J6 rioters, punish his political enemies ...

‘The Donald’ has an odd fixation with sharks and being attacked by them. Remember that weird bit he did about his preference for being hypothetically electrocuted than dying from a shark attack. That ...

What if there were a way to take a few investments you possess, flip them into a special account, write that whole amount off your taxable income, make the investment grow without incurring any tax, ...

No shock in the major cities. House prices are stable or creeping higher. Condos are sinking. Detacheds rising. Sales volumes are holding, or increasing. Active listings have levelled off. November ...

My colleague’s blog yesterday drew a red line under a sobering fact. Most people are pooched. Bad habits. Lousy finances. Poor prospects. They’ll run out of money far before they run out of life. The ...

Let’s visit that whacked-out part of the nation where demented separatists spend their days trying to get the Canadian flag out of the provincial capital. I mean, what else does the Parti Quebecois ...

It’s a coincidence, but on the day the Bank of Canada head dude said he’s quitting came evidence the maple economy’s melting. Stephen Poloz is out in June. And we lost 71,000 jobs in a single month.

When an unsuspecting virgin, like Jane, buys a hipster condo for $400,000 with 5% down that mom gave her, bankers smile. Life is good. The profits will continue. In Canada any real estate bought with ...

It now costs the better part of $1 million more to buy a detached house in that paradise known as the GTA than it does to get a condo. That’s $1,345,000 for some dirt, and $471,000 without it. Both ...

Recall when we said panic buying was coming? Well, here we are. All it took was the end of 1.99% mortgages to make the kiddos truly understand the cost of money can go up, not just down. Now that five ...