Loonie at a multi-month high quietly squeezes USD-billing exporters
A stronger loonie has shaved roughly two points off USD-billed export revenue in a month - a good week to revisit pricing, hedging and market mix.
Category: Industry Signals
Tariff exposure runs on entry date, not ship date – goods must clear U.S. customs before Friday’s deadline
The 50% duty applies when your goods enter U.S. customs, not when they leave your dock - arrival timing is now the whole game for U.S.-bound shipments.
U.S. pauses 50% tariffs for three days as Washington and Ottawa close in on a deal
A three-day pause and a tentative deal leave Alberta exporters roughly 48 hours to get U.S.-bound goods across the border - with no CUSMA shield if talks slip.
Calgary and Edmonton rents keep sliding as national asking rents fall for a 22nd straight month
Calgary asking rents are down 4.5% year-over-year — tied with Vancouver for the steepest decline among major markets — and lease-up competition among rental operators is intensifying.
Melcor’s Alberta lot sales climb even as Q2 revenue falls 38%
Melcor's Canadian land revenue jumped $10.3 million on stronger single-family lot sales — evidence that demand for Alberta residential lots is holding up even in a softer quarter.
Canadian home sales rise a fourth straight month as Prairie sellers’ markets cool toward balance
National resale activity is stabilizing, but CREA says the Prairies' sellers' markets are cooling — Alberta builders and sellers will have to compete for buyers again.
Calgary housing starts fall 20% in July as national construction pace slows
Calgary's July starts dropped 20% year-over-year while Edmonton held nearly flat — a signal that project pipelines are diverging sharply between Alberta's two big metros.
$938M Canada–Alberta water infrastructure deal sets up a November project list for housing-enabling servicing
Ottawa and Alberta will put roughly $1 billion into housing-enabling water and wastewater infrastructure, with the first project list due November 30 — developers and municipalities should be positioning their servicing-constrained lands now.
Edmonton’s Apollo-Clad scales AI defect detection across 11 laser cladding cells, with global customers and RTRI backing
An Edmonton industrial-services scale-up is turning a university AI residency into a production-line quality story it can sell to mining, oil and gas and agriculture buyers on every continent — a template for Alberta…
Resale demand softens in both Calgary and Edmonton as inventory builds and days on market lengthen
July resale data shows Calgary townhouse and apartment sales down roughly 20% and Edmonton sales down 11% with inventory up 18% — the new-home market is now competing against a deeper, slower resale pool.