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Canada’s Forever {Trade} War
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Economic Inequality
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Cost of Sheltering
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Cost of New Housing
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Canada and the Growing Economy of India
The economy of India is one of the fastest growing and largest economies in the world. The Canadian economy may… READ MORE
wisdom for this month
James Graham on the lingering and as yet unresolved effect of the 2008 global Financial Crisis (Reuters digital July 17, 2025)
…We’d been promised that this was the end of history and that everything was inevitably going to be a linear advancement towards progress and improvement. … I had no idea the longer, bigger crises and anger that was going to be coming down the line.
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