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Brace For Even Higher Rates When The Bank of Canada Does Start Raising

Interest rates expected to climb above the previous peak for the first time in decades amid robust recovery

TORONTO — With fiscal spending booming and households flush with cash, investors are betting that the Bank of Canada’s next tightening cycle, expected to begin in 2022, will result in interest rates climbing above the previous peak for the first time in decades.

In four major tightening cycles since the early 1990s, the Bank of Canada’s key interest rate has peaked at a level that was lower than the preceding endpoint.

But that could change in the next cycle, as historic levels of government spending globally raise prospects of an economic recovery from the COVID-19…

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Alberta Lose Residents to Other Parts of Canada

Rob Roach, ATB Economics | June 17, 2021


For the fourth quarter in a row, more people left Alberta for other parts of Canada than arrived from elsewhere in the country.

According to the latest population data from Statistics Canada, Alberta lost 3,384 people to other provinces and territories over the first three months of 2021. The net loss since the second quarter of 2020 comes to 7,633.

People move around the country for a wide range of reasons, but Alberta tends to be a net recipient when our economy is thriving and vice versa. Alberta’s economy was the hardest hit among the provinces last year and the unemployment rate was…

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