Month: January 2021

The quick and easy criticism of the grocery industry is that the Big Three — Loblaw Cos. Ltd., Empire Co. Ltd. and Metro Inc. — tend to move in lockstep with one another. But Michael Medline blew that out of the water calling...

Investment is the sleeper issue that will determine whether the economy emerges from the COVID-19 crisis with purpose in 2021, or merely muddles along as it did in the aftermath of the Great Recession. The Bank of Canada has...

Forecasting is a tough business at the best of times, but 2020 was particularly difficult as all estimates were made redundant as early as the first quarter. However, research house Capital Economics has ventured to offer some...

Consumers in Canada enter the year riding a wave of optimism that the worst is over. The nation’s households reported a surge in confidence in the final weeks of 2020 that has brought sentiment back to pre-pandemic levels for...