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housing
There are fewer apartments available to rent in Canada than at any time since 2001
CMHC report finds the average annual rental rate increased by 18.2 per cent when the apartment was turned over to a new tenant, compared to an average increase of 2.8 per cent when the tenant remained in the unit
Bank of Canada predicts further dip in home prices after delivering quarter-point rate hike
What Canada’s lowest mortgage rates look like after the Bank of Canada’s rate hike
Energy
Imperial Oil launches Canada’s largest renewable diesel production facility near Edmonton
Imperial Oil to construct facility at its Strathcona refinery near Edmonton that will produce a billion litres of diesel each year using hydrogen and vegetable oils
economy
Ottawa poised to address Bank of Canada losses with legislative amendments
Changes will allow Bank of Canada to temporarily retain earnings rather than remit them to the government, for the purpose of covering losses
The clearest sign yet that inflation is fading fast
Financial services
Manulife’s new preventative care partnership responds to increased claims for mental-health leaves, overwhelmed ERs
Canada’s largest life insurer will announce on Thursday it has appointed Toronto-based Cleveland Clinic as the new medical director for its group benefits operations
lumber
Canfor to close two B.C. sawmills as timber supplies dwindle
Canfor Corp. closing its sawmill and pellet operations in Chetwynd, and shuttering its sawmill in Houston. More than 400 union and non-unionized staff to be affected
Canadian softwood producers positioned to reap big refunds on U.S. lumber tariffs
Privacy
Home Depot did not comply with privacy law when it shared data with Meta, privacy watchdog says
Commissioner Philippe Dufresne says Home Depot treated customers’ choice to receive a receipt by e-mail as ‘implicit consent’ to share their data with Meta

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