An Infomart search through Canadian content for the 12 months ended Mar. 31, 2009, turned up the word recession 221,917 times. A like 12-month  search in the last major recession ending in 1991 returned 23,196 hits. Depression returns 4,582 hits for the 1991 cycle and 94,713 mentions in 2008-2009. News ...

Some 1,500 curious Canadians packed the Elgin Theatre Tuesday for “A Night with the Bears,” a lavish and civilized affair sponsored by Sprott Asset Management that was a step-up from the typical event of this type. There were drinks at the press conference, a stage decked out as if it ...

Are prices for consumer goods and services going into free fall over the next few years? Is deflation the likely scenario as record-level declines in commodity prices and government bond yields seem to suggest? Not if the Federal Reserve has anything to do with it.