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To Have & Have Not: Canadians take sides on housing market, divided in desire for home prices to rise, or tank
High housing prices spreading outside urban hot zones, hurting Canadians from coast to coast April 7, 2021 – Home sweet home. Home, where the heart is. Work from home. Homeschooling. If the places where Canadians rest their heads at night
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Budget 2021: Economic anxiety haunts two-in-five Canadians; political divides over government priorities
Half say they are worried that someone in their household may lose their job March 25, 2021 – On April 19, Canadians will learn the contents of the first federal budget they have seen in more than two years. On
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Economic Outlook: COVID-19 stalls trend of growing financial optimism in Canada
Low-income households least optimistic about coming year September 8, 2020 – Canadians continue to re-enter the employment market (250 thousand more jobs were added across the country in August), but the negative impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on personal finances
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Canadians’ personal financial circumstances improving, but majority will defer major purchases in the next year
Two-thirds say they’re spending less on non-essential items over the past month July 23, 2020 – As communities try to balance re-starting business and commerce locally while avoiding new outbreaks of COVID-19, the status of many Canadians’ own personal financial
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Half of Canadians support concept of a shorter standard work week; one-in-five say it’s a bad idea
CERB applicants more likely to say idea is a good one, three-in-five say so June 26, 2020 – Canadian working lives have been altered in ways unimagined by most at the beginning of 2020. A new study from the Angus
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As COVID-19 rewrites playbook on social safety net, majorities support idea of basic income of up to 30K
But who will pay? Two-thirds reject increase in their own taxes, most feel wealthy should be responsible June 18, 2020 – As the federal government extends the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit, a program that has sustained more than seven million
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