Canadian Banks Did Not Receive A Bailout
Sunday, May 6th, 2012 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »What's Happening - Weekend Edition: Sunday, May 06, 2012 Canadian Banks Received A Bailout A recent report published by a Canadian think tank, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, points out that the "liquidity support" provided by the ...
The UK Gets Double-Dip Recession, Moody’s Downgrades Ontario, and Canada Keeps Key Interest Rate At 1%
Saturday, April 28th, 2012 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »Moody's Downgrades Ontario Moody's Investor Services downgraded Ontario's credit rating. This happened one day after Standard and Poor's downgraded Ontario's outlook as well. The UK Gets Double-Dip Recession Britain falls into recession again for the second time ...
Apple Hits $600 Billion, Canadians Don’t Know How Investments Are Taxed, Business Optimism High In Canada
Sunday, April 15th, 2012 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »What's Happening - Weekend Edition: Sunday, April 15, 2012 Canadians Don't Know How Investments Are Taxed - A recent BMO Nesbit Burns survey finds that most of the Canadians don't know how investment taxes work. The survey shows: ...
Canada – The Fifth Happiest Country in The World, Euro Zone Unemployment Reaches 15 Years High, and Canada Unemployment Rate Drops
Sunday, April 8th, 2012 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »What's Happening - Weekend Edition: Sunday, April 8, 2012 Euro Zone Unemployment Reaches 15 Years High - Unemployment hits 10.8 percent in the 17 euro zone countries in February. Unemployment rate was 10.7 percent in January. Current unemployment rate ...
Kenya Discovers Oil, Western Canada Will Lead, and More US Shopping
Sunday, April 1st, 2012 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »What's Happening - Weekend Edition: Sunday, April 1, 2012 Kenya Discovers Oil - East African nation Kenya discovered oil for the first time in its northwest Turkana region. This light crude is very similar to the oil found in ...
Canadian Economy Grows Fastest In Eight Months
Monday, January 31st, 2011 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »What's Happening - January 31, 2011 Edition Canada Economy Speeds Up - Canadian Economic growth shows its strongest gain in eight months, data released by Statistics Canada on Monday pointed out. Robust oil and gas sector activities fueled this ...
Dow Passes 12,000
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »Today's What's Happening Dow Passed 12,000 - The Dow Jones industrial average passed 12,000 today for the first time since June 2008. As of now (3.00), Canada's TSX composite is up 1.27% as well. U.S. 2010 New Home ...
US Launches Quantitative Easing Part 2
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »What's Happening - November 3, 2010 Edition American Central bank, The US Federal Reserve, announced today that it will purchase $600 billion of long term U.S. Treasury bonds over the next eight months, and will reinvest an additional $300 ...
Canada Economy Grows In August
Saturday, October 30th, 2010 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »What's Happening - October 30, 2010 Edition Canada Economy Rebounds - Stats Canada reports that Canada's GDP grew 0.3 per cent in August, after contracting 0.1 per cent in July. July GDP growth was helped by oil and gas ...
Canada–One Of The World’s Top Ten Least Corrupt Countries
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »What's Happening - October 26, 2010 Edition On October 1, 2007, I mentioned Canada's comeback in the top ten of the least corrupt countries list. Today, I am excited to let you know that Canada has managed to climb in sixth ...
