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Six Canadian women in the qualifying at Roland-Garros is an impressive crew - led by Bianca , who is playing the Qs or the first time since 2018. Monday's sked features 3 of them, right here: opencourt.ca/2025/05/18/rol…

Oh hi Ottawa. It’s been a minute

David Cochrane left the keys to the car lying on his desk. So I’m gonna take it for a spin. Tune in on CBC NewsNetwork at 5

Updates on the Bell outage here - cbc.ca/news/business/…

I'm super happy for Alex, but really sad for the rest of us. I'll miss reading his stuff, I'll miss using him as a soundboard and sometimes even making him edit my pieces before I send them in.

I’m wrapping up my stint guest hosting Power & Politics today. Come tune in on CBC NN right now.

No doubt the best hockey game on tv tonight

With GDP data out this week, there’s chatter about Canada being in a recession because economists expect two straight quarters of decline in Gross Domestic Product (Q2 & Q3). This is a situation called a "technical recession", which is a good indicator of an actual recession but

IMHO the BOC needs to get rates below 2%. That said, since Macklem aggressively brought the Overnight rate down to r*, his pause, while I don’t agree with it, does have merit. The same cannot be said about the Fed with the FFR substantially above r*.

Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem, mixing Stanley Cup and monetary policy: "Go Oilers. Let’s bring home the Stanley Cup" he said as he wrapped up his news conference on interest rates. (Also, he was wearing an Oilers pin)

Employment was little changed in May (+8,800; +0.0%) and the employment rate held steady at 60.8%. The unemployment rate rose 0.1 percentage points to 7.0%.

Crude just a tiny, itty bit frothy, innit?

#anyonebuthim

She’s demanding I call her doctor now. So that’s doctor Piya Chattopadhyay thanks to the Canadian Forces College and the RMC naming her an honorary doctor of laws at this years convocation

And now that I’m not currently reporting and can offer pure opinion: He’s squeezing Canada to do something it was almost certainly going to do anyway, but on terms more favourable to him: drop the digital services tax. I’ve suspected for a while that Canada is merely holding

A tanker carrying Canada's first cargo of liquefied natural gas across the Pacific to Asian markets has departed Kitimat, B.C. cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

Did a copper mine blow up or did Trump talk?

What would Sebastian d'Anconia do?

No more rate cuts priced in for the Bank of Canada this year.

This is so smart. “People tend to prefer known risks to unknown ones — a trait known as ambiguity aversion. We also weigh losses more heavily than gains, which means avoiding a loss can feel like a win.” on.ft.com/3ISZrXW