Fixed Mortgage Rates Follow Five-Year Bond Yields, Not the Bank of Canada
A brokerage statement is only the front window. Behind it sit settlement records from CDS Clearing and Depository Services, transfer agent confirmations and the dealer's own internal books, and when an investor in British Columbia took Scotia Capital to court over Nvidia shares they believed had gone missing,
Canada ships roughly $2.5 billion worth of goods to the United States every single day. On Friday, the Trump administration announced targeted tariffs on dozens of nations, Canada included, citing failures to curb forced labour in their supply chains. The 10 per cent global baseline duty that was set
A 28-year-old software developer in Calgary closes on her first condo in March 2026 and her mortgage came from a broker she found through an Instagram ad, not the bank where she's banked since university. That single decision, repeated across hundreds of thousands of transactions, now
Trump's tariff threats are noise, not policy. Canada should treat them accordingly. In eighteen months, Donald Trump and his advisors have floated at least seven different tariff structures, universal baselines, reciprocal rates, sector-specific levies, and a rotating cast of exemptions that appear and vanish depending on the