The reports of tough times that have been coming from the residential home builders in this province was amplified this week with a report from StatsCan, which looks beyond the monthly tallies to examine the broader, long-term picture.In its …
Salute to Sask construction
This is Construction Week in Saskatchewan, an initiative designed to draw attention to the contribution this sector makes to the overall economy.Creating and then maintaining the built environment has always played an important role in the …
Sask labour market is hot
Saskatchewan’s labour market is hot these days as employers are creating new positions at a rate we haven’t seen in years.The monthly employment numbers for March were released last week and indicate the province generated almost 4,000 new …
Saskatchewan a buyer’s market
Saskatchewan’s housing market continues to favour buyers, while sellers try to stand out in a sea of inventory.Tracking the housing market is an above-the-fold story these days. First of all, it affects a lot of us and, secondly, it is a …
Women nearing equal ground
Increasing the number of women in leadership roles has become a major theme in this country – from the number of women sitting on corporate boards to gender parity in the federal cabinet. The idea was to bring some new thinking to the table. Now we …
Nationalism in business
The push towards a more nationalistic approach by a growing number of countries seems to fly in the face of the reality of the way business is being done in the world these days.We’ve seen growing nationalism on a number of fronts – from …
Changes afoot at Greystone
It didn’t take long for TD Bank to begin delivering new business to Greystone in Regina.TD bought the Regina-based money manager last year for more than three-quarters of a billion dollars, a figure that reflects Greystone’s impressive stature in …
Belittling successful folk
In the world of CAVE dwellers – those are citizens against virtually everything – the facts need not support the narrative that success is bad.It’s called scarcity-based thinking: If you do well then, you’re getting a bigger piece of the pie. …
Job vacancies declining
One of the metrics that is included in the basket we call the job market is vacancies.In order to get a handle on the overall state of the relationship between employers and workers, we look at a range of things. These include employment and …
Not all e-commerce is equal
The rapid growth of online or e-commerce sales is a potent reflection of how consumer buying patterns are changing. It is almost conventional wisdom these days that we’d rather opt to use a smartphone to make a purchase rather than visiting a …
