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In 2024, Canada's federal government spending reached unprecedented levels, with the Trudeau government's spending patterns marking significant records in the economic history of Canada. Between 2018 and 2024, the administration recorded the seven highest years of per-person spending in Canada's history.
The Bank of Canada slashed its key interest rate for the second time in nine days on Friday to provide a "bridge across the trouble" as authorities seek to stave off a potential recession amid the ...
Canada's annual inflation rate hit 8.1% in June, up from 7.7% in May, driven by higher costs at the gas pump and almost everywhere else, Statistics Canada said, but short of forecasts it would ...
Goldman Sachs: Home prices to fall 21% in New Zealand, 18% in Australia, and 13% in Canada.
The Bank of Canada began hiking interest rates on March 2 2022. [63] Later that same month, Oxford Economics forecasted a 24% drop in Canadian home prices by mid-2024, unless higher interest rates and anti-speculation policies fail. Were home prices to rise further (in this latter scenario), a crash of 40% and a financial crisis was to be expected.
Canada's economy is considered to have been in recession for two full years in the early 1990s, specifically from April 1990 to April 1992. [7] [8] [a] Canada's recession began about four months before that of the US, and was deeper, likely because of higher inflationary pressures in Canada, which prompted the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates to levels 5 to 6 percentage points higher ...
Alberta's hopes of a rebound this year for its long-struggling oil industry have been dashed by a crash in global crude prices, dragging down producers' stocks and leaving the Canadian province's ...
The COVID-19 pandemic had a deep impact on the Canadian economy, leading it into a recession. The government's social distancing rules had the effect of limiting economic activity in the country. Companies started mass layoffs of workers, and Canada's unemployment rate was 13.5 percent in May 2020, the highest it has been since 1976. [1]