Loblaw's move to 25% of EQB is a mortgage story, not a grocery story EQB Inc. shares jumped 9% Wednesday after Loblaw announced it would push its ownership stake close to 25%. That movement says more about where mortgage origination profits are sitting than it does about grocers
Unemployment sat at 6.5% in June, the same range it's occupied since late 2024, even as GDP estimates for the second quarter climbed to 2.5%. The Bank of Canada left its overnight rate untouched at 2.25% on July 15, citing those early signs of momentum
October through December was supposed to be recovery season. Listings up, buyers surfacing, the spring market getting a head start. Then June closed and the Canadian Real Estate Association had to make a quiet edit: the 2026 forecast is now lower than what they called for three months ago, even
Most buyers discover they need home insurance when a lawyer mentions it three days before closing. By then, the asking price, the mortgage rate, and the carrying costs have already been mentally locked in. If the premium comes back at $4,200 instead of the assumed $2,000, the budget
Plaza Retail REIT traded at $4.42 per unit on June 20, 2025. By June 27, Axia Real Assets had submitted a non-binding offer to acquire every unit at $5.28. The gap between those two numbers, 86 cents, becomes meaningful when multiplied across a publicly traded security with
The July 2026 announcement will almost certainly land at 2.25%. That isn't the question. The question is whether the next move is a quarter-point hike in October or a full year of inaction followed by cuts in mid-2027. Bay Street's forecasting range on
A single-family home in Sault Ste. Marie still sells for under $350,000. In Greater Sudbury, the median purchase price sits 40 to 50 percent below the provincial average. Thunder Bay recorded net positive migration for the second straight year. These are not the markets that dominate headlines, but
Reverse Mortgages Lost Their Predatory Reputation. Here's When They Actually Work. Margaret Chen retired in 2019 with a paid-off house in North Vancouver worth $1.8 million and a monthly pension that barely covered her property taxes. She is not unusual. Roughly 75% of Canadian seniors aged
Margaret was 78 when the assisted living invoices started arriving. $6,200 a month for the first year, $6,800 by year three. She had equity, her Oakville bungalow sat at $1.1 million on the last appraisal, but her RRIF was drawn down to half of what it had
The overnight rate has been sitting at the same level for eight consecutive meetings. That fact alone tells the story: Canada's central bank is no longer fighting fires. After two years of emergency hikes followed by cautious cuts, the Bank of Canada has moved into what operators call
A semi-detached in Halifax Peninsula North listed for $789,000 sits four blocks from a school ranked in the province's top tier. The same house, same square footage, same year built, same condition, six kilometers south near a middling catchment area goes for $647,000. That $142,
Thirty-seven percent of Toronto condo complaints logged with property managers in 2023 involved balcony wildlife, and pigeons accounted for most of them. That number comes from a GTA property management firm that oversees 140 buildings. The problem isn't distribution, it's mess, noise, and the fact