Toronto and Vancouver have long been considered the most expensive cities in Canada’s ten provinces, and in 2022 they were overtaken by Calgary. Statistics Canada recently unveiled its 2022 Market Basket Measure (MBM) for the provinces and metropolitan areas of the 10 provinces. According to this list, living with an MBM currently costs the most … [Read more…]
Between ice, wildfires and even floods, the weather will have all its colors on Quebecers in 2023, and insurers are paying the price with $680 million in insured losses. This is also the most expensive year for insurers in Quebec since the ice crisis in 1998, stressed the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), which released … [Read more…]
Sugar for sale at a supermarket in Yichang city, China’s Hubei province, April 6, 2023. Future publishing | Future publishing | Getty Images Futures contracts on orange juice, cocoa, coffee and sugar have surged in part due to extreme weather and supply shortages related to El Niño. “You can say that El Niño has a … [Read more…]