Archive for February 2020

Consumer insolvencies rose by 9.5 per cent in 2019 to the second-highest total on record, raising concerns about the financial well-being of Canadian households and their ability to manage burdensome debt loads. Just more than 137,000 consumer insolvencies were filed in 2019, an increase of nearly 12,000 from a year earlier and the largest total…

There’s nothing more frightening and paradoxically life-affirming to any commuter – but especially a Vancouver SeaBus passenger – than noting the time to the next departure. You know that, with a hurried pace, anything over the minute mark on the countdown clock means you will be able to slide onto the ferry just before they…

In one sense, what’s going to happen to the planet in the 2020s should come as no real shock: Scientists have been warning us in great detail about what to expect, and their warnings have mostly come true. But since most people seem not to have believed them, it will probably be a surprise to…

The world’s population is #aging, and so is ours. This decade, #Canada is projected to join the ranks of other superaged countries such as Italy and Japan; by 2026, more than 20 per cent of our population is estimated to be 65 years and older, the majority of whom will be women. Aging affects all of us.…