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  2. Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada

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    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]

  3. 2021–2023 inflation surge - Wikipedia

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    In November 2022, the year-over-year inflation rate was 7.1%, the lowest it has been since December 2021 but still much higher than average. [ 156 ] Inflation is believed to have played a major role in a decline in the approval rating of President Joe Biden , who took office in January 2021, being net negative starting in October of that year ...

  4. Economy of Canada - Wikipedia

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    Under the inflation-targeting monetary policy that has been the cornerstone of Canada's monetary and fiscal policy since the early 1990s, the Bank of Canada sets an inflation target [87] [89] The inflation target was set at 2 per cent, which is the midpoint of an inflation range of 1 to 3 per cent. They established a set of inflation-reduction ...

  5. Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia

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    The COVID-19 pandemic caused far-reaching economic consequences [1] including the COVID-19 recession, the second largest global recession in recent history, [2] decreased business in the services sector during the COVID-19 lockdowns, [3] the 2020 stock market crash (which included the largest single-week stock market decline since the financial ...

  6. Brace! Risks stack up for the global economy in 2025 - AOL

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    No sooner had the global economy started to put the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic behind it than a whole new set of challenges opened up for 2025. In 2024, the world's central banks were ...

  7. Canadian property bubble - Wikipedia

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    The average selling price of a home in Canada decreased by 3.9% year-over-year to $724,800 in July 2024. [74] Sales of new condo units in the first half of the year fell 57% from the previous year, marking the slowest pace in 27 years in Toronto [ 75 ] and all housing inventory in Vancouver increased by 39% compared to the year prior, rising ...

  8. ‘Greedflation’ caused more than half of last year’s inflation ...

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    Corporate profits drove 53% of inflation during the second and third quarters of 2023 and more than one-third since the start of the pandemic, the report found, analyzing Commerce Department data.

  9. Mortgage and refinance rates for Nov. 12, 2024: Average ... - AOL

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    The consumer price index released on October 10 showed inflation cooling to its lowest level since February 2021, with a 2.4% year-over-year increase in consumer prices in September, down from 2.5 ...