Canadian households spent an average of $69,950 in 2007, up 3.3% from 2006. This increase was faster than the annual rate of inflation of 2.2% for 2007, as measured by the Consumer Price Index.

Households in Alberta spent the most on …

Ontario’s new car dealers are calling on the Federal & Provincial governments to offer three or six month tax rebates todrive up sales of domestic and foreign vehicles. The dealers, members of the Ontario Automobile …

Many consumers rely on specifications such as pixel counts or carats to make purchase decisions without fully understanding what they represent or how useful they will be, suggests a new study that will appear in …

Huge numbers of Canadian families are hunting for deals this holiday season and retailers are responding in turn, going out of their way to attract these increasingly penny-wise shoppers to their stores, an Angus Reid …

Canada’s competition cops want to crack down on consumer rebates, which are growing in popularity but are also ripe for abuse. The federal Competition Bureau has set up a special research group and will issue a …

Visitors to P.E.I. will soon be able to check out how clean their hotel rooms are before they even step foot on the Island. The province will soon have inspection reports for all 1,600 hotels, bed …

Higher energy and food prices helped push overall consumer prices up by 3.4 per cent in the 12 months to September, Statistics Canada said today (Oct 24 2008).

The September one-year change was just under the …

Our world has evolved since the creation of the electric baseboard heater. Today, there are many choices when it comes to efficient heating solutions that increase your comfort. But it seems everyone wants to sell …