Nael Shiab

1 month ago | newsinteractives.cbc.ca | Nael Shiab

Canada’s notoriously wild housing market spent much of the last 10 years becoming more unhinged. Affordability was at a crisis level before 2015 and has only gotten worse since. There are plenty of reasons, but the main ones were extremely low interest rates and unusually high population growth. After the financial crisis of 2008, borrowing costs dropped to emergency low levels and stayed there until inflation took off in 2022.

1 month ago | newsinteractives.cbc.ca | Nael Shiab

Food and gas prices are famously volatile. When you go to the grocery store or the pump, you’re at the mercy of global supply chain disruptions — like droughts, pandemics or wars — that can push prices up at the drop of a hat. Federal governments only have so much control over these events. The kicker? When inflation pushes food prices up, they rarely come back down.

Nov 1, 2023 | observablehq.com | Nael Shiab

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