Best Mortgage Rates in Canada 2024 | Financial Post
WEB3 days ago · Canada’s mortgage market is changing all the time. Bookmark this page to find the top national insured and uninsured mortgage rates, updated daily, based on data from MortgageLogic.news. Postmedia and Imaginative.Online Inc., parent of MortgageLogic.news, are compensated by certain mortgage ...
CIBC says Bank of Canada will cut interest rates faster | Financial Post
WEB4 days ago · The Bank of Canada has set a normal range for rates of 2.25 per cent to 3.25 per cent. If policymakers were looking to get rates down to 2.25 per cent, Ying said it would take them eight more announcements to get there if they were to continue with quarter-point cuts. “There is still a fair bit of room to go,” she said.
Canada continues its strong growth despite population slowdown ...
WEB4 days ago · Canada is estimated to have added 250,229 people between April and July this year, which represents a quarterly growth rate of 0.6 per cent, the agency said. This is slower than the growth rate during the same quarters in 2023 and 2022, when the population grew by 334,606 and 253,510 people, respectively. Story continues below.
Canadians look for a ‘human connection’ when banking - Financial …
WEB5 days ago · The survey said 87 per cent feel they need to speak with a real person for their banking needs and 66 per cent are worried about losing the human connection with their bank as institutions embrace AI. “What we’re hearing from nearly 90 per cent of Canadians in our latest survey is that they prefer human-to-human interaction when discussing ...
Macklem says ‘we need to stick the landing’ as inflation falls ...
WEB5 days ago · Photo by TONY CALDWELL/Postmedia. Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says he is pleased inflation has moved back to the two-per cent target, but that the central bank still needs to “stick the landing” in the fight against rising prices. “It has been a long journey,” said Macklem, during remarks at an event hosted by the Institute of ...
AIMCo chief investment officer exits after less than two years
WEB6 days ago · Two internal executives being promoted to oversee public and private assets. Marlene Puffer, Alberta Investment Management Corp.'s chief investment officer, has left after less than two years on the job. Photo by Supplied/Alberta Investment Management Corp. Marlene Puffer, a seasoned pension and investment executive brought in as …
No sunny days under Trudeau | Financial Post
WEB6 days ago · The Trudeau government estimates that program spending will reach $483 billion by 2024/25 and hit $542 billion by 2028/29 — an increase of 18.4 per cent from this year’s level, according to the Fraser Institute. “Prime Minister Trudeau has already recorded the five highest levels of federal program spending per person (adjusted for ...
Advances in AI mean companies need to ensure staff are ready ...
WEB4 days ago · Steve Astorino. In April, a consortium of nine global corporations (including IBM, Intel Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., SAP SE and others) joined forces to determine just how to advance an AI-enabled information and communications technology (ICT) workforce for the future. In analyzing ICT roles in business and management, cybersecurity and ...
How Trend Hunter helps companies crack the innovation code
WEB4 days ago · In order to innovate, you need to break away from what’s comfortable. That’s a lesson Jeremy Gutsche, the founder and chief executive of trend-tracking platform Trend Hunter Inc., has spent the past 20 years applying at organizations around the world, from Fortune 500 companies to NASA. “It’s easy to stay on the path we’re on and that ...
Opinion: Federal caribou decree will hammer rural Quebec
WEB4 days ago · The federal government is considering an emergency decree to protect woodland caribou that would cost Quebec and its rural regions dearly. Thousands of families who work in the forest sector in the Saguenay, Côte-Nord and Abitibi regions could suffer serious consequences. Unfortunately, it would seem federal officials put greater …