The toll of the Canada-U.S. trade war pushed London’s unemployment rate up for a third straight month in June, Statistics Canada says
Way before the first phases of Wastell Homes’ Willow project in north London was completed, builder Sue Wastell could detect softening demand for new homes.
It's been a tough year so far for new home construction, with housing starts in all categories running behind 2024 levels.
After a couple of years in balanced territory, Southwestern Ontario’s housing market is firmly turning into a buyers' one
STRATFORD – Rheo and Sally Thompson were sitting at an outdoor cafe in Budapest a few years ago, getting ready to head on a river cruise, when they struck up a conversation with two men from England. The Thompsons told them they were from Canada – Stratford, Ont., to be exact – when a couple […]
"It’s worrisome that government keeps saying the right thing but nothing has been triggered"
Trends, fads, time – like all apparel companies, London-based Illbury + Goose has endured its share of the familiar tests in a notoriously fickle industry. To that you can add a pandemic that left many merchants, including small clothing retailers, scrambling to reinvent their business, and – now – a U.S-triggered trade war that’s slapped […]
London’s unemployment rate went up by half a percentage point for a second straight month in May, Statistics Canada reported Friday, as the ongoing trade war between Canada and the U.S. continues to take a toll on the local economy. The London region, which also takes in St. Thomas, Strathroy and portions of Elgin and […]
With the trade war with the U.S. spooking buyers, London’s housing market continued its slump in May, with only 722 homes changing hands
London’s unemployment rate jumped by half a percentage point in April as the local economy shed nearly 2,000 jobs and the toll of the U.S.-Canada trade war came into sharper focus. Statistics Canada reported Friday the jobless rate for the region, which includes St. Thomas, Strathroy and portions of Elgin and Middlesex counties, hit […]
London-area home sales are the latest casualty in the U,S.-Canada tariff and trade war.
The numbers didn’t add up for Graham Henderson. Toronto had four million people and a music economy of $500 million a year. Austin, Texas had a fifth of the people, 800,000, and three times the music economy, $1.5 billion a year. As president of Music Canada at the time, Henderson set out to figure out […]