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Government Dependency – Recent CMA Building Permit Composition in Canada

Ultimately all economics is local.  Ontario municipalities are in the final throes of a municipal election race and in my own community the question of municipal economic development via public sector construction spending has come up.  The concern is that much of the economic activity in my community over the last four years has been […]

Is Toronto Leading Canada’s Economic Recovery?

Statistics Canada has just released the most recent building permit numbers and they show that municipalities issued building permits worth $6.8 billion in March 2011, a 17.2% increase from February and a level not seen since June 2007.  Moreover, the gain was mostly the result of advances in the residential and non-residential sectors in Ontario.