Our Favourite Shocking Stat of the Year
12/08/2019 7:00 AMIt's online pornography vs the Alberta oil sands - which do you think creates more CO2...
read moreQuote of the Week
12/07/2019 12:14 PMIs the climate crusade really an excuse to expand government control as some people suggest. In the quote of the week, teenage climate sensation, Greta Thunberg gives us her...
read moreMike’s Editorial – Pensions on My Mind
12/07/2019 11:44 AMMaybe I should retire. It would certainly make some people happy, especially supporters of the status quo power groups but I can't turn my back on what's about to happen in the next two years - i.e. massive financial...
read moreComplete Show – Dec. 7th
12/07/2019 11:20 AMThe French give us a glimpse into the future - and it's not pretty. Do you like the rising civil unrest and violence? Jonathon Haidt tells us why it's happening in Instant Wisdom. Plus, Mike chimes in with his favourite shocking stat of the year and you don't want to...
read more‘Real Estate as a Service’ Now One of the Hottest Trends
12/06/2019 2:34 PMOur friends over at Hawkeye Wealth thought our readers might be interested in this latest real estate trend. ~ED One of the hottest trends in North American real estate is “real estate as a service” (REaaS), a Vancouver audience was told at the Urban Land Institute’s...
read moreBC Working Hard To Restore the Alberta Advantage
12/06/2019 10:14 AMThe new Employers Health Tax will take another $2 billion from BC businesses that Alberta's businesses don't pay. And the ripple effect will help push Vancouver's property tax increase to double Edmonton's and...
read moreCanadian Mortgage Credit Is Seeing Explosive Growth… Again
12/05/2019 9:48 AMB-20 what? Never heard of him. Canadians are in a rush to take out mortgage credit once again. Bank of Canada (BoC) data shows a major jump in borrowing. The increase is some of the highest growth for mortgage debt, and is primed to explode even higher. Canadian...
read moreBullish on the Canadian Economy? This Stock May Be Your Best Bet
12/05/2019 9:41 AM2019 has been a good year for the markets, with stocks hitting record highs in both the U.S. and Canada. Despite mixed economic data, the markets appear to be pricing for future growth. In the most recent quarter, GDP limped along at just 0.1% year over year, while...
read moreNatural Gas Set To Fall Even Further
12/05/2019 9:37 AMSlowing gas demand in China is set to pressure international gas prices further, adding to the burden of producers, some of whom already have to deal with excess supply. Bloomberg quoted a researcher from China’s economic planning authority, who said at a BloombergNEF...
read moreWill Climate Strike Student Protestors Change Their Wish List?
12/05/2019 7:13 AMThe holiday shopping season's here. I wonder how many of the student Climate Strike protestors have changed their Christmas wish list or was it all just...
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