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Our impressions of the year's most important developments In 2022, we mark a significant milestone: after two editions of our Legal Year in Review summarizing legal and business developments heavily [...]

Given the current state of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, employers are increasingly asking their employees to perform work in person, rather than remotely. As employers navigate these discussions with employees who [...]

Byline: ERIC ANDREW-GEE; Staff The pink and silver tinsel over the cash register at Dollar Cinema is a relic of a long-past holiday season. Concessions include off-brand candy, which owner [...]

Byline: J. KELLY NESTRUCK; Staff Theatres across the country have been open without interruption for many months now. Are Canadian audiences going out to see live plays and musicals again [...]

Byline: MARCUS GEE; Staff Canadians who pay any attention to the world around them are gradually coming to realize they have been living in a fool's paradise. In that dreamy [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS The Winnipeg Blue Bombers were big winners on and off the field last season. Winnipeg capped the CFL's return in 2021 with a second straight Grey [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff There's just no pleasing some people. No sooner had the Bank of Canada executed its latest and most decisive move against inflation - a full percentage [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA -- GENEVA A cost-of-living crisis sparked in part by higher fuel and food prices is expected to hit women the hardest, the World Economic Forum reported [...]

Byline: NANCY LANTHIER; Special to The Globe and Mail Investors intent on purchasing commercial real estate that can realize steady returns during daunting economic times should keep an eye out [...]

Byline: GORDON PAPE Editor and publisher of the Internet Wealth Builder and Income Investor newsletters There's devastation everywhere on the tech landscape. Share prices have been battered. Market caps have [...]

Byline: PATRICK BRETHOUR; Staff Hundreds of thousands of experienced workers are on the sidelines, even as a labour shortage tightens its grip on the Canadian economy. Immigration has been touted [...]

Byline: TARA DESCHAMPS; THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Thousands of tech workers started hunting for new jobs as layoffs rippled across the industry in recent weeks, but many say these [...]

Byline: GORDON PAPE Editor and publisher of the Internet Wealth Builder and Income Investor newsletters One of the best places to find yields these days is the energy sector. The [...]

Byline: DAVID MILSTEAD; Staff There is one group of Canadian workers who have received pay gains that definitely beat raging inflation: CEOs. The median pay package for chief executive officers [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS; THE CANADIAN PRESS When he opened Fish & Sips with his wife in 2015, Paul Feather found hiring to be one among many challenges of running a [...]

Byline: DUSTIN COOK; Staff Ontario's small business and tourism sectors are optimistic the province's temporary sixmonth cut to gas taxes will spur an increase in travel this summer. On Friday, [...]

Byline: PATRICK EGWU; Staff After two years of downturns because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the summer job market for university and college students in Canada is starting strong as employers [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff A growing number of Canada's emerging technology giants are scaling back hiring in the face of worsening economic news as the sector shifts rapidly from a [...]

Byline: JASON KIRBY; Staff It's not just your imagination. Restaurants really are overflowing in ways not seen since before the pandemic. Despite crushing inflation, an acute labour shortage and the [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada's banking regulator has kept the domestic stability buffer at the top end of the range to help address heightened financial uncertainty. As the buffer stands, [...]

Byline: CHRIS HANNAY; Staff Since 2004, Linette Doherty has taught dance and theatre classes to children out of the same street-front studio, The S.P.A.C.E., on Toronto's Danforth Avenue. Though the [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff Canada's big family-controlled companies appear to be coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic with more stock market momentum than widely held corporations as they maintain [...]

Byline: ERICA ALINI; Staff Just as Canada's home sales and prices cool off, the rental market is catching fire. Rents in many parts of the country are nearing or surging [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA; Staff Online bank challenger Wealthsimple Technologies Inc. has laid off 13 per cent of its employees as market conditions rock the technology sector, prompting a flood of [...]

Byline: KONRAD YAKABUSKI; Staff Believe it or not, long lines and flight delays are not the biggest problems facing Canada's largest airports these days. Rising debt and a backlog of [...]

Byline: SIMON HOUPT; Staff Chris Overholt knows what some people will think when they hear about what he did at Maple Leaf Gardens last weekend. Back in February, 1999, he [...]

Byline: JASON KIRBY; Staff Anyone taking the pulse of the economy right now has plenty of reasons to feel optimistic. The COVID- 19 pandemic appears to be under control, the [...]

Byline: ERIC ATKINS; Staff Montreal-based airline and tour company Transat AT Inc.'s second-quarter loss deepened amid pandemic-related flight cancellations and soaring fuel prices. Fuel prices rose 76 per cent in [...]

What does a healthy housing market look like? It's a place where homes are readily available to buy or rent at a reasonable price. There's no scarcity, since rules permit [...]

Byline: LISA MELCHIOR Founder and managing partner of Vertu Capital, a Toronto-based private equity firm specializing in Canadian B2B enterprise software companies As pandemic-fuelled tech valuations drop down to earth [...]

Byline: TARA DESCHAMPS; THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- When the COVID-19 pandemic struck and many abandoned in-person shopping and dining out, bricks-and-mortar retail became one of the most undesirable assets [...]

Byline: JESSICA HURAS; Special to The Globe and Mail The menu at Momofuku Toronto is typically rich in trout, caviar and ramen fixings. But these days, the kitchen is overflowing [...]

Byline: TARA DESCHAMPS; THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- When Jack Newton looks around the tech sector, he has a sense of whiplash. Over the past two years, tech stocks soared [...]

Byline: BRENT JANG; Staff VANCOUVER -- Consumers will likely see cheaper lumber this summer but shouldn't expect prepandemic prices, as many retailers will still have leftover stock purchased at higher [...]

Byline: ROBERT FIFE, BILL CURRY OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended the Liberal government's economic policies on Thursday, following public criticism from his former finance minister, Bill Morneau. Mr. [...]

Byline: JARED LINDZON; Special to The Globe and Mail The pandemic has forever changed how Canadian small business owners approach talent, technology and their very definition of success. The past [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff The old deal if you owned a home was low-interest rates and rising equity. The new deal is rising rates and falling equity. This shift is [...]

Byline: IRENE GALEA, BRENT JANG Costs for shipping goods in containers have been dropping since March, though experts say it's too early for retailers to celebrate as congestion in the [...]

Byline: KONRAD YAKABUSKI; Staff Two years after the COVID-19 pandemic pushed La Maison Simons to the brink of bankruptcy, the 182year-old Quebec City-based fashion retailer has got its groove back [...]

Byline: PATRICK BRETHOUR; Staff Payments under the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy hit a peak in the summer of 2020, and then declined rapidly after tighter COVID-19 restrictions resumed in the [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS The number of job vacancies across Canada reached an all-time high in March, ending a five-month decline, Statistics Canada said Thursday. The agency said employers were [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff Consumer confidence today is right where you'd imagine with inflation soaring, house prices falling, and stocks and cryptocurrencies getting whacked. The largest decrease in consumer confidence [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER -- VANCOUVER Metro Vancouver's transportation authority says its recovery of ridership that plummeted during the pandemic has been stronger than many other North American transit [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA, DAVID MILSTEAD The billions of COVID-19 savings that flooded into Canada's wealth and asset management industry has led to big bumps in pay for many of its [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA; Staff Canadian investors pulled billions of dollars from their mutual fund investments last month while falling share prices led to an $87.5-billion decline in total assets for [...]

Byline: DAVID MILSTEAD, SUSAN KRASHINSKY ROBERTSON Dollarama Inc., one of the Canadian companies that benefited from increased sales from COVID-19, has doubled its CEO's pay from prepandemic levels. The company [...]

Byline: KIERAN DELAMONT Writer and photographer based in Nova Scotia Summer is coming. And that means Canadians are about to get their first taste of what 'living with COVID-19' will [...]

Byline: JOSH O'KANE; Staff Lightspeed Commerce Inc. is betting that its payment-processing services will guide it to profitability after a wave of acquisitions and pandemic reopenings have boosted the customer [...]

Byline: BRETT BUNDALE; THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada Goose Holdings Inc. recorded lower sales in Asia in its latest quarter amid renewed COVID-19 restrictions and widespread store closings in China. The [...]

Byline: WILLIAM ROBSON CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute For the first time in years, the Bank of Canada is under attack. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the bank kept inflation [...]