Anyway, the whole notion of a land-locked region with a scant five million people in it becoming a sovereign nation is bonkers. Smith should never have played footsie with economic lightweights or ...

The wire was an inch thick and caused nothing but problems.

Buying a house is a form of forced savings by paying the mortgage every month and maybe in 25 – 30 years you might actually ...

But it isn’t. This is dog-whistle politics, classically blaming outsiders, or ‘them’ for wrongs being committed against ...

There are 8.4 million people in Canada who are now 65 or older. That’s 20% of the population. Of those, 7.5 million old snorts are collecting OAS monthly payments. That includes just over a hundred ...

In other words, fellow little beavers, there is no national unity crisis in Canada. They can huff. They can puff. And you ...

Capital markets are enormously complex yet surprisingly simple. They’ll always tilt, on a risk-adjusted basis, in the direction where there’s the greatest opportunity to make money. This is one reason ...

Poor Mark. His dad died. Sad but inevitable. Not inevitable, however, was the bad decision the old guy made – to name both M and his bro (who lives in the UK) as co-executors of his estate. “I’ve read ...

Days ago we dumped on the BC prem’s desperate election promise to tax unsold condos. It’s kneejerk, unschooled and achingly populist. People hate developers. So, whack ‘em. If it screws up the housing ...

The first time I fired a machine gun, the damn thing jerked me forward, burying the muzzle in the earth. Bullets flying. Scared the crap out of me. I was a kid. A Royal Canadian Army Cadet. The gun ...