Canadian housing market posts first sales gain in 6 months
10/15/2021 8:38 AMCanada posted its first nationwide home sales increase in six months as the end of summer vacations and a steadily improving economy boosted the market. National home sales rose 0.9 per cent in September from the month before, the first monthly increase in...
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Schachter’s Eye On Energy – October 14th
10/14/2021 12:50 PMEach week Josef Schachter gives you his insights into global events, price forecasts and the fundamentals of the energy sector. Josef offers a twice monthly Black Gold (SER) newsletter covering the general energy market and 30 energy, energy service and pipeline &...
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CBC Edmonton news report featuring a mannequin was filmed at a training facility, not in a hospital Intensive Care Unit
10/14/2021 11:34 AMA news report released by CBC Edmonton on how an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) operates which featured a mannequin and was later used for other stories aired on the channel was not filmed inside an ICU and is not evidence that the pandemic is a “scam” despite claims made...
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Microsoft to shut down LinkedIn website in China as internet censorship increases in the country
10/14/2021 11:25 AMMicrosoft announced Thursday it will shut down its local version of LinkedIn in China as the country continues to expand its censorship of the internet. LinkedIn was the last major U.S. social network still operating in China, which has some of the strictest...
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Global gas crisis is spilling over into oil markets, IEA says
10/14/2021 9:57 AMShortages of natural gas in Europe and Asia are boosting demand for oil, deepening what was already a sizable supply deficit in crude markets, the International Energy Agency said. Crude has surged above US$80 a barrel, the highest in three years, as traders...
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Canadian Bond Yields Hit Pre-Pandemic Levels, A Sign Higher Mortgage Rates Are Near
10/13/2021 12:06 PMThe Canadian bond market is sending real estate a message — credit is going to tighten. Government of Canada (GoC) 5-year bond yields hit the highest level in a year today. Yields for the segment are now triple the level they were last year. Since GoC bond yields...
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‘No growing support’ for fossil fuel divestment: RBC
10/13/2021 11:42 AMWorking with the fossil fuel industry to improve its environmental impact is seen as more effective than divesting from the emissions-heavy sector, according to RBC Global Asset Management's latest survey on environmental, social and governance-focused (ESG)...
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Employment numbers show bureaucrats benefit while private sector struggles
10/13/2021 11:07 AMStatistics Canada’s employment numbers released today show Canadians working outside government have struggled while the bureaucracy continues to grow. “There’s been a tale of two pandemics in Canada: one full of private sector pain, the other full of politicians and...
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How Democracy Ends
10/13/2021 10:36 AMHow Democracy Ends: COVID19 policy shows a (potential) path to the end of America The pandemic events of 2020-2021 outline a potential pathway for a future democratically elected President of the United States to systematically end democracy. The course of events...
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U.S. to reopen land borders to vaccinated Canadians
10/13/2021 10:22 AMFully vaccinated Canadian vacationers and day-trippers will be allowed to drive into the United States beginning in early November, the Biden administration said Tuesday, the first glimmer of hope in nearly 20 months for the families and businesses that depend on...
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