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With the first quarter of 2024 now in the books, we thought we would spend a bit of time doing a quick run through where various Canadian economic and market indicators stand.

Back in 2017, we pointed to a challenging economic landscape for Canada as the commodity boom of the early 2000’s had faded and a lack of economic creativity had failed to establish new potential catalysts for the coming years.

The 96th Academy Awards will be held three weeks from now and in honor of the first ever AI-hosted event – Mario the Chatbot will be hosting utilizing the downloaded comedic routines of Buddy Hackett, Jackie Mason, George Carlin and the scripts of the last seven Marvel movies – we thought we would provide some general thoughts.

The Canadian housing market is a hot topic. We put together our thoughts on the topic in a short video. Enjoy!

For this week’s missive, we honor the not late and the not-so-great campaign of Ronald Dion DeSantis.

We came into 2023 with a cautiously optimistic outlook. In this edition of Thoughts On, we look back on our predictions for 2023 and present our thoughts on 2024.

With 2024 fast approaching, we thought we would provide some early thoughts on the outlook for Canada and specifically interest rates.

This week, as we do every year, we celebrate the birthday of Harrison Ruffin Tyler. For those not familiar with Mr. Tyler, he was a very successful businessman and preservationist, who has restored the Sherwood Forest Plantation on the shores of the St. James River in South Carolina. The Plantation has the distinction of being the only property in the United States that was home to two different and unrelated U.S. Presidents. Harrison, who turned 95 this week, was born in 1928.

2022 is on a bold (and painful) course that has rarely, if ever, been travelled before.

We look at the best and worst years to be born from an investing perspective. Spoiler alert – 1943 was a gem.

Understanding what taxes and fees that will be owed upon death can be an important step in proper planning. We discuss some of these steps.