View the video here on your mobile device. More than half of Canadians surveyed recently for the Economic Club of Canada expect the economy will improve this year. The Pollara Strategic Research survey in December found 54 per cent of Canadians expect the economy will improve in 2010. That’s a far more optimistic reading than [...]
View the video here on your mobile device. Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he is disappointed after the latest job numbers showed that the Canadian unemployment rate remained unchanged at 8.5 per cent. Stephen Harper says the numbers – which showed that Canada lost 2,600 jobs in December – indicate that more needs to be [...]
View the video here on your mobile device. Members of Canada’s baby boom generation regularly add caregiving and financial support to their already busy lives – sometimes at a cost that could include increased personal stress, abandoned vacation plans and reduced retirement savings. Investors Group’s Boomers on Call survey of Canadians aged 43 to 63 [...]
View the video here on your mobile device. A new report says Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs pocketed an average of $7.3 million in 2008 – the year Canadians were hard hit by the emergence of the worldwide recession. Economist Hugh Mackenzie of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says those salaries were 174 times [...]
