Year: 2024

Monday marks 10 years since the killing of five university friends shook the city of Calgary.

Calgary Police are investigating a shooting that occurred early Monday morning in the community of Taradale.

Firefighters have been battling a large grass fire in east Edmonton since 4 a.m.

The market abruptly reset its expectations for the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates. At first, it moved the goalpost to a March cut of 25 bps. After March’s 2024 inflation report, stock markets re-adjusted valuations for Nasdaq (QQQ), S&P 500 (SPY), and the small-cap sector (IWM). What happened?On April 11, 2024, U.S. producer prices rose, albeit less than economists expected. The Labor Department posted prices rising by 2.1% Y/Y, an increase not seen since April 2023. Investors quickly sold Treasury bills. Downward pressure on the 10-year (IEF) and 20+ year (TLT) will increase their…

A tentative agreement has been reached between York University and about 3,000 academic workers who walked off of the job at the end of February.

Toronto is set to see a mostly sunny start to the week before another spring storm rolls in on Wednesday and Thursday.

Premier Doug Ford and Ontario’s minister of transportation will be holding a news conference in Milton on Monday morning.

The Quebec coroner’s public hearings into the deaths of two Saint-Urbain volunteer firefighters who lost their lives on May 1, 2023, during a flood in the Charlevoix region begin Monday.

Fix this house So Justin Trudeau says he is going to build more than three million homes in Canada (“Grits vow to ‘solve the housing crisis’,” The Canadian Press, April 13). We are talking about a prime minister who has never balanced a budget and, after all these years, has completely failed to fix up […]

The latest spat between Quebec and Ottawa over immigration is based on politics and not the reality of the labour market, says the head of a major employers group.