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  1. 2 CIBC: #Job growth was pretty evenly split between full and part time roles, and by sector was led by wholesale & retail, finance, professional services and construction. #cdnecon #KFS

  2. 1 CIBC: Brisk hiring in July saw the #unemploymentrate tick lower again in #Canada, despite a slight improvement in #labourforce participation. The 75K increase in #employment was well above consensus forecasts (20K), with the unemployment rate of 6.4% the lowest in 2 years. 🧵
    #cdnecon #LFS

  3. #StatsCan: #Employment increased by 75,000 (+0.4%) in July and the #employmentrate rose 0.1 percentage points to 60.9%. The #unemploymentrate declined 0.1 percentage points to 6.4%.
    #jobs #jobsdata #LFS #cdnecon

  4. I wonder how much money the company got from the federal government, in addition to the $10M+ Québec investment?

    According to the creditor filing, Goodfood sold its investments in an "exchange-traded fund indexed to the performance of #Bitcoin..." 🤦‍♀️

    How #Goodfood went from a $1B #pandemic darling to a three-cent stock... montrealgazette.com/news/how-g #cdnpoli #cdnecon #polQC #QCpoli

  5. I wonder how much money the company got from the federal government, in addition to the $10M+ Québec investment?

    According to the creditor filing, Goodfood sold its investments in an "exchange-traded fund indexed to the performance of #Bitcoin..." 🤦‍♀️

    How #Goodfood went from a $1B #pandemic darling to a three-cent stock... montrealgazette.com/news/how-g #cdnpoli #cdnecon #polQC #QCpoli

  6. “That bet is placed collectively by Main Street investors & domestic & offshore institutional investors. And by sovereign wealth funds like … the giant #Norwegian #SWF, which owns stakes in more than 200 #Canadian publicly traded #companies.” #TSX #cdnecon #CanadaSky www.thestar.com/business/opi...

    How are stocks soaring despite...

  7. “That bet is placed collectively by Main Street investors & domestic & offshore institutional investors. And by sovereign wealth funds like … the giant #Norwegian #SWF, which owns stakes in more than 200 #Canadian publicly traded #companies.” #TSX #cdnecon #CanadaSky www.thestar.com/business/opi...

    How are stocks soaring despite...

  8. 2 Bloomberg: The two countries are currently negotiating to find a #trade #deal by Aug. 19. That’s the date on which #Trump promised last month the US will apply new 50% #tariffs on a fresh basket of #Canadian-made goods, unless Carney’s government addresses what the US calls “ #irritants.”
    #cdnecon

  9. 2 Bloomberg: #Imports of #computers and #computer #peripherals rose by 59% in June, primarily due to processing units used for #datacenters coming from the US. As a result, #imports from the US rose to a record high of C$42.63 billion ($30.3 billion) #cdnecon #trade #Canada #CanadaSky

  10. 1 Bloomberg: Canada’s #datacenter push drove #imports from the #US to a #record in June. Higher volumes of #electronic and #electrical #equipment and parts drove an increase in total imports, according to Statistics Canada. 🧵
    #cdnecon #trade #Canada #CanadaSky

  11. 2 CIBC: It also followed an upwardly revised 0.6% advance in April. #Growth in May was reasonably broad-based (13 of 20 sectors), w mining, oil & gas, construction, real estate and public admin leading in terms of contributions. The early estimate for June showed a further 0.2% gain in GDP #cdnecon

  12. 1 CIBC: Further solid #growth in May and June capped a very strong rebound for the #Canadianeconomy in Q2. Monthly #GDP posted a 0.3% increase for May, which was above the advance estimate (0.1%) and also a tick above the consensus forecast. 🧵
    #cdnecon

  13. 1 Bloomberg Canada Daily: #PrimeMinister #MarkCarney rejected the notion that #Canada should curb the supply of #vital #resources to the #US to retaliate against #tariffs, arguing that it’s more important for the country to keep its reputation as a dependable producer. 🧵
    #cdnecon #cdnpoli

  14. 1 Bloomberg Canada Daily: #PrimeMinister #MarkCarney rejected the notion that #Canada should curb the supply of #vital #resources to the #US to retaliate against #tariffs, arguing that it’s more important for the country to keep its reputation as a dependable producer. 🧵
    #cdnecon #cdnpoli

  15. 2/2 Port Huron, Michigan (along with St. Clair County) overwhelming voted for Trump in three presidential elections. Today, small businesses face ruin and economic collapse. MAGA!
    #Michigan #USA #tariffs #economics #trade #collapse #Canada #PortHuron #Sarnia #cdnecon #Ontario

  16. 2/2 Port Huron, Michigan (along with St. Clair County) overwhelming voted for Trump in three presidential elections. Today, small businesses face ruin and economic collapse. MAGA!
    #Michigan #USA #tariffs #economics #trade #collapse #Canada #PortHuron #Sarnia #cdnecon #Ontario

  17. "Prior to the pandemic, 60 per cent of Port Huron’s retail and restaurant business could be attributed to Canadian shoppers, said Jorja Baldwin, president and CEO of the Bluewater Area Chamber... Canadian “elbows up” attitudes have brought cross-border shopping to a trickle, likely no more than 10 per cent of Port Huron’s retail market now, according to Baldwin"
    #Michigan #USA #tariffs #economics #trade #collapse #Canada #PortHuron #Sarnia #cdnecon #Ontario
    petrolialambtonindependent.ca/

  18. "Prior to the pandemic, 60 per cent of Port Huron’s retail and restaurant business could be attributed to Canadian shoppers, said Jorja Baldwin, president and CEO of the Bluewater Area Chamber... Canadian “elbows up” attitudes have brought cross-border shopping to a trickle, likely no more than 10 per cent of Port Huron’s retail market now, according to Baldwin"
    #Michigan #USA #tariffs #economics #trade #collapse #Canada #PortHuron #Sarnia #cdnecon #Ontario
    petrolialambtonindependent.ca/

  19. I find it kind of frustrating that nearly all of the reporting on the #TrumpTariffs seems to overlook a major point: the justifications that Trump’s team uses for imposing them.

    Tariffs are the end-goal or Trump. Always has been. He told us all this during the election; it was right there in #Project2025. ‘Tariff” was the most beautiful word in the dictionary, remember? Anyone?

    So, when he says now that the new tariff against Canada is because we ‘discriminte’ against US products, it’s simply a disingenuous ex post facto attempt to justify their actions, but the goal remains the same. Tariffs.

    The first round of tariffs were shut down by SCOTUS, so they found another obscure law to justify a new round, but it came with a time limit. Now, they’ve dug up some other obscure law [1] to justify the new round, and the key element of the new law is ‘discriminate’, so by their twisted logic Canada is ‘discriminating’ against US products by retaliating against the US’ previous hostile trade acts.

    It’s all so facile.

    [1]: Section 338of the 1930 Tariff Act, which allows the President to impose a duty of up to 50% on a country’s goods to “offset commercial disadvantages” if it factually finds that said country “discriminates” against U.S. commerce.*

    #CDNPoli #CDNEcon

  20. I find it kind of frustrating that nearly all of the reporting on the #TrumpTariffs seems to overlook a major point: the justifications that Trump’s team uses for imposing them.

    Tariffs are the end-goal or Trump. Always has been. He told us all this during the election; it was right there in #Project2025. ‘Tariff” was the most beautiful word in the dictionary, remember? Anyone?

    So, when he says now that the new tariff against Canada is because we ‘discriminte’ against US products, it’s simply a disingenuous ex post facto attempt to justify their actions, but the goal remains the same. Tariffs.

    The first round of tariffs were shut down by SCOTUS, so they found another obscure law to justify a new round, but it came with a time limit. Now, they’ve dug up some other obscure law [1] to justify the new round, and the key element of the new law is ‘discriminate’, so by their twisted logic Canada is ‘discriminating’ against US products by retaliating against the US’ previous hostile trade acts.

    It’s all so facile.

    [1]: Section 338of the 1930 Tariff Act, which allows the President to impose a duty of up to 50% on a country’s goods to “offset commercial disadvantages” if it factually finds that said country “discriminates” against U.S. commerce.*

    #CDNPoli #CDNEcon

  21. #Canada feels the weight of sticking with what worked in the past but no longer does: the world’s fourth largest #auto #exporter in 1990, today’s it’s sunken to ninth place.” #CanadaSky #cdnecon #cdnpoli

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mqwsg2puds2g

  22. 2 CIBC: … with the participation rate holding steady and population growth slower than in recent years, it was enough to see the #unemployment rate edge down to 6.5%.
    #cdnecon #jobsdata #LFS

  23. 1 CIBC: The #Canadian #labourmarket continued to add #jobs in June, putting the weakness seen over the first four months of the year further into the rearview mirror. The 18K reading was slightly above expectations (consensus 10K) and, … 🧵
    #cdnecon #LFS #jobsdata #unemployment

  24. CPA Chief Economist David-Alexandre Brassard on this morning's StatCan jobs numbers: “This is a blockbuster report that seemingly wipes away recession fears and points to a rebound in the second quarter following two quarters of contraction.” #cdnecon

  25. BMO Senior Economist Robert Kavcic: "There is much more to a recession than two quarters of negative GDP growth. We often think of the three Ds—depth, duration and dispersion. Things aren’t great, but Canada isn’t there yet" #cdnecon
    economics.bmo.com/en/publicati

  26. 2 Desjardins: Only four of the nine subsectors rose, further highlighting the pressure on #Canadian #consumers from higher #gas #prices. #retailsales #cdnecon

  27. 1 Desjardins: #Retailsales in Canada rose 0.9% in March, but all of the increase was driven by #gasoline #prices. Excluding #gas and #autos, sales fell 0.1%. Higher #prices accounted for more than all of the gains in nominal headline sales, with volumes down 0.7% 🧵 #cdnecon