The federal debt will reach nearly 70 per cent of GDP by 2050.
interest rates
September 17, 2020
4:43PM
The federal budget deficit in 2020-21 is an esitmated $343.2 billion.
September 3, 2020
3:21PM
Debt interest will cost Ottawa an estimated $19.5 billion this year.
August 20, 2020
4:27PM
In the 1990s, federal debt-interest costs routinely eclipsed 30 per cent of revenues.
January 10, 2019
11:13AM
Workers aged 55 years and over hold one-fifth of the jobs in Canada.
December 21, 2018
11:07AM
Unemployment is lower than it’s been in at least 42 years.
December 21, 2018
10:39AM
Sale prices in the Greater Toronto Area at the end of 2016 were almost 110 per cent higher than a decade prior.
November 9, 2018
10:28AM
The higher-than-expected inflation of the late-1980s was one reason the bank switched to inflation targeting.
September 18, 2018
10:13AM
Household debt as a share of GDP is at a virtual all-time high.
March 14, 2018
10:22AM
The ratio of household net worth-to-GDP has risen over time.