Competitive pressure would lead to payments being cleared in real time and client accounts being transferred electronically, not by hand
https://financialpost.com/opinion/canadian-banking-needs-more-competition
Robert Gill: Some potential drawbacks include lower returns and difficulties monitoring your portfolio
https://financialpost.com/investing/portfolio-diversification-not-always-good-thing-investors
Officially, the UN has 169 development goals. It should instead focus on a dozen or so high-payoff policies, like tablets in grade schools
https://financialpost.com/opinion/sustainable-global-development-bang-per-buck
Adam Black: The question of which country’s laws govern the split can have significant consequences
https://financialpost.com/personal-finance/family-finance/foreign-divorce-undermine-spousal-support
Rosenberg Research: Bank of Canada will have to cut rates harder and faster than it thinks if productivity is not addressed
https://financialpost.com/news/economy/how-fix-canada-poor-productivity-performance
The law is an ass, a Dickens character proclaimed. Ottawa's new rules on trusts confirm that. They should be withdrawn and forgotten
Drug prices are not out of control. They're lower in Canada than in nine of 14 other countries we normally compare ourselves with
https://financialpost.com/opinion/controlling-drug-costs-doesnt-require-pharmacare
If white Canadians have rigged the housing market in their favour, as critics charge, why do Asian-Canadians have much higher home ownership rates?
https://financialpost.com/opinion/housing-market-isnt-racist-blame-your-parents
Recent rise in interest rates has made it worthwhile to give annuities a second glance
https://financialpost.com/investing/looking-safer-retirement-income-stream-consider-annuities
Trudeau doesn't really believe the market story he was pitching last week, and what would Poilievre do after he axed the carbon tax?
https://financialpost.com/opinion/wanted-federal-leader-honest-about-climate-policy
A private member's bill would ban ads favourable to resource industries, including those developed and run by Indigenous Canadians
https://financialpost.com/opinion/dont-outlaw-indigenous-pride-contributing-oil-gas
Too often the answer is inefficient and ineffective regulation that takes too long, costs too much and is too cumbersome and unpredictable
https://financialpost.com/opinion/why-cant-we-get-anything-built-anymore-canada
Environmentalists want the city of Ottawa to ban ads for hydrocarbons
https://financialpost.com/opinion/ads-for-oil-and-gas-not-like-tobacco-ads
Rosenberg Research: Companies that protect data in the cloud offer a great risk-reward profile
https://financialpost.com/investing/cybersecurity-sector-rides-secular-tailwinds-strong-fundamentals
Their main effect is ill feeling among the 39 million Canadians who don't get them. End them and give the new revenues to First Nations
https://financialpost.com/opinion/ottawa-should-abolish-indian-act-tax-exemptions
The source of our current problems? 'It's the political economy, stupid,' especially the idea that people are either oppressors or oppressed
https://financialpost.com/opinion/western-societies-must-stop-spread-of-marxism
Throwing money at the system hasn't shortened wait times. It's time for more fundamental reforms Canadians tell pollsters they favour
https://financialpost.com/opinion/canadians-tired-patiently-waiting-health-care
They lead to a slowdown in construction and a deterioration in supply hurting future tenants
https://financialpost.com/real-estate/rent-controls-hurt-rental-supply
Rita Li: Very few asset classes can come close to what the stock markets can deliver over the long run
https://financialpost.com/investing/is-now-best-time-invest-stock-market
If governments want to raise taxes they should do so openly, not by hauling in more revenue as prices rise without anything real changing
https://financialpost.com/opinion/good-nova-scotia-budget-declines-profit-inflation
Advocates call for adoption of universal design principles to ensure easy conversion of residential units for people with disabilities
https://financialpost.com/real-estate/accessibility-housing-crisis-no-one-talking-about
Intended to catch trust cheats, rules create offence of failing to file, which thousands of innocent trustees will likely do
https://financialpost.com/opinion/new-cra-reporting-rules-trusts-disaster
GDP has been growing more slowly than population, which means per capita real GDP is less now than it was in 2014. That's a big problem
https://financialpost.com/opinion/reality-canadians-suffering-nine-year-recession
Still, most active managers have underperformed — and by a significant margin
https://financialpost.com/investing/fund-managers-underperform-benchmarks
Restructuring or eliminating ineffective subsidies could easily save $25 billion a year
https://financialpost.com/opinion/federal-government-business-subsidies-huge-mostly-wasteful
Short-term troubles are giving way to very positive outcomes
https://financialpost.com/investing/taylor-swift-career-small-cap-stocks-rebound
Excessive reliance on income taxes is hurting investment. Raise the GST two points and cut income and corporate taxes
https://financialpost.com/opinion/how-lessen-ottawa-addiction-income-taxes
In a racist Canada, people of Japanese and Korean ancestry wouldn't have higher-than-average incomes or professional status (which they do)
https://financialpost.com/opinion/why-almost-everyone-wrong-racism
Province's real infrastructure problem is shortages of construction workers and project managers. New financing won't solve that
https://financialpost.com/opinion/ontario-infrastructure-bank-hurt-more-than-helps
Revised federal law should require assessors to consider projects' economic and geopolitical implications and also decide promptly
https://financialpost.com/opinion/need-faster-fairer-assessments-major-energy-projects
A route by which many tobacco users have been able to quit would be blocked and the black market would expand
https://financialpost.com/opinion/banning-flavoured-vapes-promotes-harm
Rosenberg Research: Go overweight in these sectors for better returns
https://financialpost.com/investing/real-story-canada-lagging-stock-market
Even Canadians who didn’t agree with the trucker convoy’s message should be concerned by the obvious disparity in their treatment by the legal system
https://financialpost.com/opinion/truckers-jail-time-real-criminals-bail-parole
David Jones: Surge pricing is increasingly common, but backlash against Wendy's is just one reason why it isn't right for restaurants
https://financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/surge-pricing-isnt-coming-fast-food-menu-near-you
We're asking the big banks to study what disinvestment from oil and gas is going to cost both their shareholders and the economy
https://financialpost.com/opinion/bank-research-net-zero-near-zero-fix
As Americans clamour for lower-priced drugs from Canada, Canadians face potential drug shortages and price increases
https://financialpost.com/opinion/cross-border-pharmaceutical-sales-should-concern-canadians
After subtracting COVID spending, real per capita spending set a record in Quebec in 2020 and then again in 2021. It's not sustainable
https://financialpost.com/opinion/legault-government-keeps-breaking-spending-records
Three million Canadians suffer from rare diseases. New drugs that can help often take far too long to get into Canada
Don't ignore attractive opportunities right in front of you
https://financialpost.com/investing/consumers-hate-oligopolies-but-this-group-shouldnt
Canada's current drug insurance system has gaps that need to be filled but we know almost nothing about how this plan will do that
https://financialpost.com/opinion/pharmacare-cornerstone-laid-but-where-are-blueprints-budget
The first Indigenous-owned investment dealer in Canada will provide a unique prospective and set of values, Clint Davis says
Recent tax cases concerning signing bonuses and RCAs will make life even harder for Canadian teams
https://financialpost.com/opinion/canadians-want-stanley-cup-back-canada-cra
Minister said Ottawa will not fund new road construction
https://financialpost.com/opinion/steven-guilbeault-war-on-cars
Makes no sense to blow up system most Canadians are happy with to help small number of people who need better coverage
https://financialpost.com/opinion/expensive-plan-canadian-patients-wait-longer-fewer-drugs
Third-highest among 19 countries, TransUnion study says
https://financialpost.com/cybersecurity/canada-suffers-increase-digital-fraud
An IPP offers a robust alternative for entrepreneurs and incorporated business owners
https://financialpost.com/personal-finance/when-individual-pension-plans-beat-rrsps
Nicotine in cigarettes doesn't kill you, tobacco does. Nicotine pouches do not contain tobacco, so they don't need close regulation
https://financialpost.com/opinion/nicotine-pouches-help-smokers-quit-dont-ban
Coming out of COVID, higher interest rates raised mortgage costs but house prices didn't fall and provide the partial offset they usually do
https://financialpost.com/opinion/how-measure-housing-costs-explain-inflation-stubbornness
Rosenberg Research recommends diversifying away from the overvalued and increasingly narrowly-based U.S. equity market
https://financialpost.com/investing/nifty-fifty-provides-clues-fate-magnificent-seven
Central bank believes slack in economy will give it room to cut rates, but fewer students could tighten labour market and scuttle that
https://financialpost.com/news/economy/foreign-student-cap-hinder-bank-of-canada-rate-cuts