Author Archives: Danielle Park

Perfect storm for realty investors: rising vacancies and falling rents

In Picketty and the decline of dirty mansions, Dylan Reid reminds of the debt-driven economic boom that built large single-family mansions in the early twentieth century.  Many were converted to more efficient and affordable multiple-unit dwellings in the bust years … Continue reading

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OECD: most economies will remain well below 2019 output levels by end of 2021

According to third-quarter forecasts by the OECD, by the end of 2021, most economies, including Canada, will have a level of output that remains well below that of 2019, and considerably weaker than projected a year ago. As shown in … Continue reading

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Electric vehicles are the future, Canada will evolve or die

Canada is a global leader in auto and parts production yet one of the few auto-producing nations with no homegrown auto companies.  Twenty years ago, Canada was assembling about three million internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles a year for foreign … Continue reading

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