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A new Signal49 Research report finds that the genomics sector supported close to 78,000 jobs and contributed $16.7 billion to GDP in 2025.

🔍 Read the full report. https://genomecanada.ca/canadas-digital-biology-advantage/

#Genomics #Bioeconomy #CanadianEconomy
November 5, 2026 at 3:07 PM
the-14.com
Ottawa can do more to free up trade among provinces
#Canada #CanadianEconomy #InterprovincialTrade #Trade #InternalTrade #TradeBarriers #CanadianPolitics #Ottawa #BusinessAndTrade #Federalism #SmallBusiness #Politics #GlobalAffairs #IndustrialPolicy #The14Media
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Ottawa can do more to free up trade among provinces | The-14
Ottawa has five ways to reduce interprovincial trade barriers, support a stronger Canadian economy and respect provincial powers while improving internal trade.
the-14.com
November 5, 2026 at 9:02 PM
jessicafancymp.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Budget 2026: Masters of Our Own Destiny!

Fresh off the presses! Budget 2026 includes important investments that will make a real difference for families, small businesses, and rural communities across South Shore—St. Margarets.

#Budget2026 #SouthShoreStMargarets #RuralCanada #CanadianEconomy
November 5, 2026 at 11:28 PM
smartcartpolitic.bsky.social
Canadian economy lost 4,700 jobs in October as unemployment rate ticked up to 6.7% #CanadianEconomy #UnemploymentRate #JobLoss #StatisticsCanada #CanadaJobs
Canadian economy lost 4,700 jobs in October as unemployment rate ticked up to 6.7%
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The unemployment rate rose to 6.7 per cent in October, as Statistics Canada says more people were looking for work. That […]
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November 6, 2026 at 3:06 PM
hollywood47.bsky.social
Canadian economy lost 4,700 jobs in October as unemployment rate ticked up to 6.7% #CanadianEconomy #UnemploymentRate #JobLoss #StatisticsCanada #CanadaJobs
Canadian economy lost 4,700 jobs in October as unemployment rate ticked up to 6.7%
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The unemployment rate rose to 6.7 per cent in October, as Statistics Canada says more people were looking for work. That […]
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November 6, 2026 at 3:06 PM
jayakafle81sports.bsky.social
Canadian economy lost 4,700 jobs in October as unemployment rate ticked up to 6.7% #CanadianEconomy #UnemploymentRate #JobLoss #StatisticsCanada #CanadaJobs
Canadian economy lost 4,700 jobs in October as unemployment rate ticked up to 6.7%
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The unemployment rate rose to 6.7 per cent in October, as Statistics Canada says more people were looking for work. That […]
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November 6, 2026 at 3:04 PM
aitech23.bsky.social
Canadian economy lost 4,700 jobs in October as unemployment rate ticked up to 6.7% #CanadianEconomy #UnemploymentRate #JobLoss #StatisticsCanada #CanadaJobs
Canadian economy lost 4,700 jobs in October as unemployment rate ticked up to 6.7%
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The unemployment rate rose to 6.7 per cent in October, as Statistics Canada says more people were looking for work. That […]
politic.smartcartly.com
November 6, 2026 at 3:06 PM
uspolitics97.bsky.social
Canadian economy lost 4,700 jobs in October as unemployment rate ticked up to 6.7% #CanadianEconomy #UnemploymentRate #JobLoss #StatisticsCanada #CanadaJobs
Canadian economy lost 4,700 jobs in October as unemployment rate ticked up to 6.7%
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The unemployment rate rose to 6.7 per cent in October, as Statistics Canada says more people were looking for work. That […]
politic.smartcartly.com
November 6, 2026 at 3:05 PM
market-ocean-en.bsky.social
The question now is whether the export recovery has enough momentum to absorb another shock, or whether repeated rounds of tariffs teach Canadian firms that waiting is safer than building.

#BankOfCanada #Tariffs #CanadianEconomy
October 29, 2026 at 8:10 AM
elliott4mp.bsky.social
The Bank of Canada thinks punishing everyday homeowners with higher interest rates will somehow extinguish global oil prices. Central planning fails Canadians every time. End central bank manipulation.

#cdnpol #BankOfCanada #InterestRates #CanadianEconomy #Libertarian
A black and white political cartoon signed by Jeff Johnson depicting a Bank of Canada official standing on a ledge and pouring water from a bucket labeled "2.5% RATE HIKE" directly onto a shivering citizen who is holding a paper labeled "MORTGAGE". In the background, a massive fire rages with a banner reading "GLOBAL OIL PRICES".
October 29, 2026 at 11:20 PM
market-ocean-en.bsky.social
The question now is whether the export recovery has enough momentum to absorb another shock, or whether repeated rounds of tariffs teach Canadian firms that waiting is safer than building.

#BankOfCanada #Tariffs #CanadianEconomy
October 29, 2026 at 8:10 AM
megadox.bsky.social
And I agree 💯%.
#CanadianEconomy #tradewar #tariffs
"Nearly 75% of Canadians think PM Carney is on the right track seeking closer ties with Europe: poll"
Nearly 75% of Canadians think PM Carney is on the right track seeking closer ties with Europe: poll
The poll finds Prime Minister Carney's approach has nation-wide approval, with the strongest support in British Columbia.
edmonton.citynews.ca
October 29, 2026 at 3:24 PM
market-ocean-en.bsky.social
The question now is whether Canada's economy can slow enough to calm bond markets without slowing so much that equity valuations lose their footing.

#TSX #BondYields #CanadianEconomy
October 10, 2026 at 2:00 PM
market-ocean-en.bsky.social
That leaves Canadian equities priced on one question: will the economy's strength help profits more than it raises the discount rate? #TSX #BondYields #CanadianEconomy
October 2, 2026 at 9:30 PM
blackpanther25.bsky.social
🇨🇦💪Amid the push to build Canadian, a Quebec train factory is booming.

The Alstom plant in La Pocatière, Que., a community of about 6,000 people, has endured waves of layoffs and uneven production over the past two decades.
#CanadianEconomy🍁

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'There’s pride in building trains at home': Quebec plant sees a comeback | CBC News
A Quebec train factory battered by years of layoffs is expanding as governments push to buy Canadian. Alstom's La Pocatière plant is hiring and scaling up for major domestic rail contracts, including ...
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October 2, 2026 at 1:22 PM
blackpanther25.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Stelco Steel plant to lay off hundreds of workers as u.s. tariffs prompt ‘survival’ move.
The company says it will indefinitely idle its cold-rolled & coated operations at its Hamilton Works plant, with operations set to begin winding down on Oct. 9.
#CanadianEconomy🍁

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Hamilton steel plant to lay off hundreds of workers as U.S. tariffs prompt ‘survival’ move | CBC News
Steelmaker Stelco Holdings says it's idling some production at its Hamilton plant in response to U.S. tariffs.
www.cbc.ca
September 28, 2026 at 7:37 PM
theovi.bsky.social
The quiet north by Robert Perez

Canada is not assembling an empire, building aircraft carriers by the dozen or announcing a Canadian century. Its rise is quieter and potentially more consequential.

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#canada #CanadianEconomy #EuropeanUnion
The quiet north by Robert Perez
For decades, the Western world treated the United States not merely as its leader but as the load-bearing wall of the entire house. Europe could argue, Canada could prosper quietly, Japan could inn…
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September 26, 2026 at 7:26 AM
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#Financialization
#HousingCrisis
#CanadianEconomy
#PoliticalEconomy
#PublicPolicy
#InstitutionalReform
#Productivity
#EconomicInequality
#Canada
#HousingAffordability
#HousingPolicy
#CapitalAllocation
#AssetEconomy
#ProductiveInvestment
#HouseholdDebt
#EconomicMobility
#Collateral

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The Hallmark Patient
Financialization, Institutional Inversion, and the Betrayal of Public Purpose in Canada | Read Essay & Listen now (31 mins)
curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com
September 25, 2026 at 12:45 PM
pepperberry-posts.bsky.social
A systems-level examination of how Canada’s stable institutions became increasingly organized around protecting existing wealth rather than creating new social and productive capacity.

#CanadianEconomy
#PoliticalEconomy
#PublicPolicy
#InstitutionalReform
#EconomicInequality
#Canada

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The Hallmark Patient
Financialization, Institutional Inversion, and the Betrayal of Public Purpose in Canada | Read Essay & Listen now (31 mins)
curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com
September 25, 2026 at 12:33 PM
pepperberry-posts.bsky.social
Canada’s institutions are stable, profitable, and increasingly organized around preserving what already exists. Who are they actually for?

How housing, banking, insurance, and political stability became parts of one Canadian crisis of institutional purpose.

#CanadianEconomy
#Canada

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The Hallmark Patient
Financialization, Institutional Inversion, and the Betrayal of Public Purpose in Canada | Read Essay & Listen now (31 mins)
curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com
September 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM
pepperberry-posts.bsky.social
Canada’s institutions appear stable, but their incentives increasingly protect existing wealth over new capacity. A new essay & podcast on housing, finance, insurance, productivity, and public purpose.

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curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/the-hallma...

#Financialization #CanadianEconomy #Canada
Canada is not facing a housing crisis, a productivity problem, a credit-access gap, and an insurance crisis as unrelated policy failures. These are different expressions of the same institutional drift. Banks prefer recoverable collateral. Regulators protect stability. Homeowners defend accumulated equity. Pension funds pursue promised returns. Governments avoid housing corrections and financial disorder. Insurers preserve solvency as correlated risks become more expensive. Each actor has a defensible reason for behaving as it does. Together, however, these decisions produce an economy increasingly organized around protecting existing wealth, existing assets, and existing institutional arrangements. Capital flows more easily toward what can already be measured, priced, and repossessed than toward retraining, entrepreneurship, technological adoption, or productive capacity that does not yet exist. The Hallmark Patient explores this process through housing, banking, corporate finance, insurance, competition, productivity, and political inertia. It rejects the emotionally satisfying explanation of a hidden financial conspiracy. The deeper problem is more difficult: a system without a master, in which individually rational choices repeatedly converge on a collectively damaging outcome. The essay & podcast ultimately asks how essential institutions should be judged. Stability and profitability matter, but they are incomplete measures. Institutions must also be evaluated by what they make possible, who can realistically access what they offer, whose risks they absorb, and whether public privilege continues to correspond to public function. Finance is indispensable. That is why it deserves democratic judgment rather than automatic deference. #TheHallmarkPatient #Financialization #HousingCrisis #CanadianEconomy #PoliticalEconomy #PublicPolicy #InstitutionalReform #Productivity #EconomicInequality #Canada
September 25, 2026 at 12:21 PM
blackpanther25.bsky.social
Canadian🍁 Gordie Howe bridge vehicle traffic tops 3️⃣4️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ in first full month of operation.

It was nearly the same as traffic at the nearby Ambassador Bridge, which saw 345,445 crossings last month.
#CanadianEconomy🇨🇦

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Gordie Howe bridge vehicle traffic tops 340,000 in first full month of operation | CBC News
Traffic at the new Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Windsor, Ont., and Detroit topped 340,000 in its first full month of operation, according to new data.
www.cbc.ca
September 17, 2026 at 7:05 AM
canooq.bsky.social
Canada’s first Investment Summit wrapped up with nearly $500B in new commitments:
The bigger goal: more than $1 trillion in Canadian investment over five years.
#canada #CanadianEconomy #InvestInCanada #canadianbusiness #infrastructure
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Canada Investment Summit 2026: what Mark Carney announced in Toronto
Canada says its first Investment Summit produced nearly $500 billion in new commitments.
www.canooq.ca
September 17, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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#TSX #TSXFutures #StockMarket #CanadianEconomy #Investing #BondYields
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September 15, 2026 at 9:29 PM
pepperberry-posts.bsky.social
#Canada #CanadianPolitics #CanadianEconomy #EconomicPolicy
#HousingAffordability #CostOfLiving #Wages #Labour
#Productivity #SmallBusiness #PublicPolicy #PoliticalEconomy
#TradePolicy #MiddleClass #EconomicSecurity

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curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/canada-str...
Canada Strong for Whom?
What “Forward Guidance” Leaves Out of the Stronger-Canada Story
curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com
September 13, 2026 at 3:23 AM