The median age of a newbie house-buyer in the GTA is the same as in America these days. Forty. Yes, some gray hairs. Love ...

The service at the local cenotaph at Memorial Park South was well attended, the weather probably helped in this regard. More ...

… Trouble is, even upstanding lawyers can become unwitting dupes because of routine services. They operate trust accounts, ...

In October, the CAPE ratio for the U.S. equity market rose to 40, it’s highest level since the dot-com era in 1999. According to a recent report, economist Robert Shiller projects that the S&P 500 may ...

The oldest in the nation is the RRSP, birthed after WW2 to encourage retirement savings. The idea is simple: if you ...

It’s been a tough year for oil. The WTI oil price is down 17% y-t-d and is off more than 25% from its January highs. Slow economic growth in the US has certainly hurt pricing (we started the year with ...

For decades Garth’s avid readers have been taught that supply, demand, fear, greed, and government intervention set prices. Beef supply shortages are responsible for the ever-escalating price of ...

Yesterday’s pre-budget blog poll asked you if Ottawa could seriously do anything to restore housing affordability for people like this. After all, Mark Carney has already put $13 billion in the bowl.

Yesterday’s federal budget will hold. No election is coming. Relax. The deficit is ugly, but useful. Could have been far worse, but it comes with a drop in the federal payroll, brakes on social ...

We only use exchange traded funds (ETFs) in our client portfolios. But this week, instead of detailing all the strengths of ETFs (the efficiency, diversification and low cost, for example), I will ...