COVID-19

OTTAWA – The cost to put food on the table and gasoline in the car pushed up the cost of living in September, lifting the annual pace of price increases to a near two-decade high with no clear end in sight to the elevated readings.…

TORONTO – At the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Colin Bates could only watch helplessly as many of his clients shut their offices and sent people home.``The world changed dramatically for us here at that time as well,'' said the…

OTTAWA – The governor of the Bank of Canada pressed the case for COVID-19 vaccines to be sent to developing nations as part of a broader push to not only end the pandemic, but aid Canada's economic recovery and ease price pressures on…

The Case for the Core: Provocations for the Future of Canada’s Downtowns

In August, the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) announced a $23.25 million investment to establish My Main Street—a two-year program to support the recovery and revitalization of main streets and…

OTTAWA – Newly released documents show the Liberals were told earlier this year that the government's bid to lock in low interest rates on federal debt could run into problems unless the Bank of Canada stepped in.The low rates have…

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Christina Disler mulled whether to close her Vancouver co-working space business because people were so fearful of being in communal offices.``We lost like 75 per cent of our clients because we…

TORONTO – The chief executive of Cineplex Inc. says his company's decision to slow payments to film studios and seek rent deferrals and abatements during the pandemic was akin to moves being made by Cineworld Group PLC and other large…

CBRE says Canada’s national office vacancy rate rose to 15.7% in the third quarter of 2021, surpassing levels reached during the dot-com bubble and global financial crisis. But the outlook is improving, and although the fourth wave has…