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From 2003 to 2018, Canada saw an increase in home and property prices of up to 337% in some cities. [2] In 2016, the OECD warned that Canada's financial stability was at risk due to elevated housing prices, investment and household debt. [3] By 2018, home-owning costs were above 1990 levels when Canada saw its last housing bubble burst. [4]
The most affordable markets are Saint John, St. John's, Regina, Quebec City and Halifax, while the least affordable markets are Vancouver, Toronto, and Victoria. Statistics Canada reported that, while Canada's "real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita increased by roughly 50% between 1980 and 2005," and the workforce increased educational ...
Toronto 28.4 3.7 517.8 36.2 Insurance 7 174 Enbridge: Calgary 36.1 2.2 122.2 75.3 Oil and Gas 8 190 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce: Toronto 20.2 3.9 486.0 36.8 Banking 9 229 Suncor Energy: Calgary 29.7 2.5 65.6 52.6 Oil and Gas 10 273 Sun Life Financial: Toronto 23.4 2.0 196.0 24.5 Insurance 11 341 Bell Canada: Montreal 18.1 2.3 41.8 40.9
Dollarama Inc. is a Canadian dollar store retail chain headquartered in Mount Royal, Quebec. [3] Since 2009, it has been Canada's biggest retailer of items for five dollars or less. [4] Dollarama has over 1400 stores and is active in all of Canada; Ontario has the most stores. [5]
Canada is the United States' largest oil supplier and the fifth-largest energy producing country in the world. Canada provides about 16% of U.S. oil imports and 14% of total U.S. consumption of natural gas. The United States and Canada's national electricity grids are linked, and both countries share hydropower facilities on the western borders.
[16]: 1, 3 In their 2017 list that ranked Canada's top 100 richest people, Toronto-based Rob McEwen of McEwen Mining, ranked 100th with a net worth of C$875 million, while number 1 on the list—the Toronto-based Thomson family of Thomson Reuters—had a net worth of C$39.13 billion. [17]
A lakh (/ l æ k, l ɑː k /; abbreviated L; sometimes written lac [1]) is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand (100,000; scientific notation: 10 5). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the Indian 2, 2, 3 convention of digit grouping , it is written as 1,00,000. [ 3 ]
Kensington Market is a distinctive multicultural neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Market is an older neighbourhood and one of the city's best-known. In November 2006, it was designated a National Historic Site of Canada. [1] [2] Robert Fulford wrote in 1999 that "Kensington today is as much a legend as a district. The ...