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Get a LIFE Weekend and Economic Summit

June 19, 2009 REIN

There’s a great Real Estate Investment Network (REIN) event in Edmonton coming up soon, June 26-28th. Friday night starts with an economic summit with key speakers, some top Canadian economists and veteran analysts. You can download the PDF brochure here, or click here to register. The panel for the summit will include: Carl Gomez, Vice President, [...]

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IMF’s Charles Kramer about Canada Recovery

March 12, 2009 The Economy

The IMF is going to release it’s ‘Article IV’ report early next month, and Charles Kramer (IMF Mission Chief) and Marcello Estevao (his “Deputy in the IMF’s North America Division”) did a conference call to share the main findings. Here’s the three main findings (emphasis is mine). The bottom line is that Canada is positioned [...]

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Canadian Stats, Right Now!

March 12, 2009 Statistics

Now there’s another simple place to find Canadian economic statics. The surprising part is it’s from the Canadian Federal Government. I suppose it’s our answer to the American site Recovery.org. The site is www.canadianeconomy.gc.ca and it starts with a nice simple dashboard for national economic indicators. The nice part is when you click on one [...]

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RBCs GDP Forecasts – Some Handy Graphs

February 8, 2009 Statistics

RBC is my favorite bank when it comes to economics. Among other things, they do the housing affordability index, lots of forecasting and make it relatively easy to find the whole data set, together with some really great analysis. I’ve designed these graphs, as well as the Google Spreadsheets with the data to be easy [...]

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Canada’s Economy to “Weaken”

October 6, 2008 The Economy

They had an ‘emergency’ panel over at the Economic Club of Toronto this morning before Stats Can releases some reports that may freak people out. That’d be the building permit reports today, and the housing price index and labour force survey on Friday. The five pannelists were  Warren Jestin of Scotiabank, Don Drummond of TD [...]

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Cowboys Herding Cats

September 19, 2008 Song of the Week

Happy Friday! I’m about to head off to spend the weekend on a houseboat with Megan and a half-dozen friends. My friend Jody Nimetz from SEO-Space won the trip in a contest but can’t use it, so he let me take it. I’m pretty excited. This week’s stock-market meltdown has been interesting to watch. I’ll [...]

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