With the per-barrel price of crude surpassing USD100, the oil sands and other alternative sources are back in play. Canada is in great shape to weather a US downturn because of interest from new trading partners in its resources. Read More

The question of whether the US will fall into recession--or how deep the one the world’s largest economy inevitably suffers will be--animates all forms of financial media these days. Read More

Canada’s engagement in Afghanistan appears to be receding as a potential election catalyst after Stephane Dion, leader of the official opposition Liberal Party, said his party would support Canada staying in Central Asia for two years longer than scheduled but not in a combat role. Read More

Members of Parliament returned to Ottawa last week to begin their next session amid a rising sense that the minority Conservative government had lost control of the agenda. Read More

Canada, unusual among developed countries in the importance of natural resources and raw materials, now ranks with the world’s top five producers of 14 mineral commodities and leads in the production of uranium and potash. Read More

It will take many more months for the US housing market to stabilize and US financials to work off their bad debts, and there will be negative effects throughout the global economy. Read More

Deal-making in the first half of 2007 was fueled by aggressive lending terms offered by banks, commercial lenders, pension funds and others competing for pieces of the action. Safeguards that lenders usually rely upon were relaxed in the drive to generate fee income. Read More

Canada’s National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) was created in October 1988 to explore new opportunities to integrate environmental conservation and economic development. In fall 2006, former Environment Minister Rona Ambrose requested an analysis of how Canada could meet 2050 targets to reduce air pollutants and greenhouse gases. The NRTEE released its report yesterday. Read More

An ominous Institute of Supply Management reading for December put an early crimp in the action, and oil and gold approached historic levels on the first day of 2008 trading. The numbers are a reminder that the housing-and-credit fog that shrouded the second half of 2007 didn’t magically lift with the turnover to 2008. Read More

Any number of things can move trust unit prices in the near term. But long term, only one thing does: distribution growth. Read More