July 14, 2021 | Hard choices
Garth Turner A best-selling Canadian author of 14 books on economic trends, real estate, the financial crisis, personal finance strategies, taxation and politics.
Nationally-known speaker and lecturer on macroeconomics, the housing market and investment techniques. He is a licensed Investment Advisor with a fee-based, no-commission Toronto-based practice serving clients across Canada.
Our shiny new GG (qui ne peut pas parler français) gets her wings on July 26th. About a month later Justin Trudeau and wife will stroll across to Mary Simon’s digs and ask her to dissolve Parliament. A little over 36 days following that media event we’ll have an election. The third Monday in September seems a safe bet.
A best-selling Canadian author of 14 books on economic trends, real estate, the financial crisis, personal finance strategies, taxation and politics.
Nationally-known speaker and lecturer on macroeconomics, the housing market and investment techniques. He is a licensed Investment Advisor with a fee-based, no-commission Toronto-based practice serving clients across Canada.
This will be a rutting season unlike any other. But will the hormonal beasts pawing and trampling their way through the suburban underbrush be making wise nesting decisions? Maybe not.
Let’s review the facts.
Non-urban real estate has been goosed beyond reason by the slimy little pathogen. Houses in godforsaken places like Abbotsford and Scugog, Squamish and Caledon have seen massive increases in sales and prices. As this blog has detailed of late, crazed people are paying a million for a semi in Pickering and well into seven figures for a particle board factory house in Milton. Even Nanaimo and Kamloops are
Posted on January 15, 2021
By Mitch Borden
At the beginning of 2020, the oil industry in the Permian Basin was humming along without any idea that looming on the horizon was a historic oil bust. Months into last year, an eerie quiet brought on in part by the coronavirus pandemic settled over the West Texas oil fields as prices plummeted. One of the places where the industry’s muted activity became clear: the notorious U.S. 285, also known as ‘Death Highway.’
In this episode of Quiet & Loud, we take a look at how this active road that runs through some of the busiest parts of the Permian Basin has changed.