Year: 2021

Weight of the pandemic and new expenses on the fiscal update

TORONTO – Take stock of the health of Canadian finances and understand if the conditions exist to plan a return from the long-term deficit. These are the two central themes on the eve of the presentation of the new tax update by the federal government, also in light of the additional expenses approved to cope with the Covid-19 emergency and the growing uncertainty linked to the development of the new Omicron variant in Canada and the rest of the world. 

Leaf Blower vs Rake

TORONTO – Before the heavy snowfall of November 28th this year, there was added noise that Torontonians were dealing with – leaf blowers. As if the construction noise and ambulance/fire truck/ police cruiser sirens were not enough, leaf blowers have added to the deafening noise of the city. 

Covid in Ontario, over ten thousand active cases. Quebec close to two thousand a day, Alberta breathes

TORONTO – The surge in infections already recorded last week in Ontario shows no sign of decreasing: today the province reported 1,476 new cases of Covid-19 and 8 deaths. Infections were 1,607 on Saturday (the high number in seven months) and on Friday 1,452. The seven-day moving average of daily cases is now 1,236 (Saturday it was 1,194, a week ago 761).