The Weekend Notebook

Thoughts, views and opinions as current events unfold: With topics taken from current market events and my latest book — When the Bubble Bursts: Surviving the Canadian Real Estate Crash (Dundurn: March 2015)  and my first book Investment Traps and How to Avoid Them (1999) — this short piece will give you unique and valuable insights filtered by my thirty-six years’ experience as an investment professional.

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Pipeline politics meets demand reality

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Alberta and Ottawa’s sweeping new energy accord, signed by Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith, is being framed as a nation‑building effort...

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The Bank Cuts Again — But the Real Problem Is Housing...

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