atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | yesterday
Don Drummond, chief economist for TD Financial Group, will discuss productivity and the GDP at a Toronto Board of Trade breakfast Wednesday morning, but not in the way you would expect.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
TORONTO (MARKET WIRE) The Toronto Region has the potential to become one of the world's top 10 financial centers, but to get there it needs to increase its global competitiveness overall and in several specific areas, according to a new report released today by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
Toronto Sun - News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Toronto is poised to become one of the world's top seven financial centres by 2015, experts say.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Says up to 40,000 jobs and $5-billion in annual gross domestic product could be added
TheHoundBlog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The Jiving Juniors- Jamaican R&B circa' '1958 Their only U.S. release. The Jiving Juniors were a Jamaican vocal group, heavily influenced by American rock'n'roll and rhythm and blues who cut at least a dozen singles for possibly as many labels. The group was Eugene Dwyer, Herman Sang, Maurice Winter, and lead singer Derrick Harriot who'd go on to stardom in Jamaica later as a solo act, producer...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Canada's unemployment rate rose to 8.6 percent in October from 8.4 percent a month earlier as the economy shed a net total of 43,200 jobs, the government said Friday.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
10-year budget reveals plan to cash in Hydro loan, switch to 30-year borrowing terms
Climbing Out Of The Dark (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
I wonder why the TD Bank would get into the climate change issue with a report that was guaranteed to incite Western Canadians into a frenzy, and frenzy it will be. Do they not understand that Albertan's still remember NEP, that's why they will not vote Liberal. For a bank to get political, which is what they have done by paying for this report, is unCanadian. And Donald Drummond is responsible for...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
The UN will send billions to the Third World in carbon credits. Remember Oil for Food? By Peter Foster W hen the TD Bank’s Don Drummond agreed to spend $110,000 on a study of the impact of climate change policy on Canada, what he had in mind was to elucidate the regional impacts of such policies. This was a worthy objective, although everybody knows that it’s Alberta that stands to get...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Don Drummond would be well-advised not to give up his day job as TD Financial's chief economist to try his hand at politics. Mr. Drummond was curious about the regional economic impact of the Conservative government's plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 20% below 2006 levels by 2020, and commissioned a study to investigate. So far, so good. His mistake was to ask two environmental groups, the...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach has rejected a new report that says Ottawa can only achieve its greenhouse gas emissions targets by limiting growth in Saskatchewan, Alberta and B.C.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Canadians must determine whether they're willing to bear the burden of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
The numbers released on Thursday by provincial Finance Minister Dwight Duncan in his fall budget update are staggering. A record $24.7 billion deficit, roughly double the peak during Bob Rae's NDP government ($12.4 billion), and a net provincial debt rising to $184.1 billion, again about double the level during Rae's days.
David Akin's On the Hill (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
TD Bank's chief economist Don Drummond and his director of ecnomic analysis Derek Burleton take a look today at the books of federal and provincial governments [ PDF ] and, though they've been among the gloomiest of forecasters during this recession, their latest report, while grim, is not the most dire in the world. They conclude that, if federal and provincial governments want to get back in the...
Creative Class (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Today’s Tweeting trends revolve around spending and saving, recession and recovery: The New Normal Great NYT graphic of US shopping trends RT @timoreilly http://bit.ly/n8RAa Commercial real estate crisis - Rents down 8.5%, vacancy rate hits 5 year high (16.5%) http://tiny.cc/CHUrf, Worsening US Inequality threatens long-term recovery http://bit.ly/1N5iy9 Very rocky road to recovery, Martin Wolf,...
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