We’ve got them but we’re not especially sure how to use them. That’s the basic finding of a new retirement preparation survey conducted for RBC Royal Bank. It says more Canadians now have TFSAs than RRSPs but a big percentage of those with the …
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They are Not Quite Equal
Anti-fossil fuel advocates like to say this country should dump the petroleum sector in favor of alternative energy production but they don’t talk about the thousands who would be left on the outside looking in. A new report from StatsCan has …
Is a Recession in the Cards?
When the stock market had a one day swoon, dropping roughly one percent on something called the inverted yield curve in the US, all the talk was about a recession. The decline was over in a day and no American recession yet. But why the …
Residential permits buck trend
This might sound a little out of the ordinary, but Saskatchewan in June posted one of the higher increases in the value of residential permits issued across the country. We have generally been in negative territory on this particular indicator …
Trudeau joins growing parade
Our Prime Minister has joined a small but tarnished group of powerful people who have some explaining to do about the way they conduct themselves. For the second time, Justin Trudeau has run afoul of the ethics commissioner in this country. The …
Sometimes the experts are wrong
There are times when going with what you wish for rather than listening to the professionals will pay off. This is one of those times for Canadians looking at financing a home. In less than a year, mortgage rates in this country have dropped …
Skewing the statistics
Hey sports fans, Saskatchewan has the highest density of sports clubs that charge admission fees of any province in Canada. That is, of course, on a per capita basis. We have 1.8 teams that charge admission per 100,000 people. In real numbers, …
Sorting latest job numbers
The volatile swings in the monthly employment figures were evident in the numbers released for July. They came out late last week and showed a drop of almost 11,000 full-time positions in the month. There was a corresponding increase in part-time …
Dare We Say It?
There is a growing consensus among the bank economists that Saskatchewan’s economy will have trouble achieving one percent growth this year. But they may not have the benefit of seeing what’s going on the ground in these parts. Among the latest to …
Wealth Is More than Money
Being a millionaire is not the only way to measure whether or not you’re rich. That assertion comes from Ben Carlson in a recent article in A Wealth of Common Sense. He notes that only five-percent of people in America have reached the …
