House passes bill to ease banking regulations

If you’re using AI to write your LinkedIn posts, you might want to reconsider. New data from Pangram suggests LinkedIn has become inundated with AI content. The AI detection firm estimates that 41% of long-form LinkedIn posts and 30% of short-form ones were likely AI-generated, based on its data from April to June. LinkedIn had the…

This weekly update tracks some of the largest cryptocurrencies by market share: Bitcoin and Ether. While both are considered high-risk assets, they possess foundational differences that investors should understand. We have also included XRP, as it was one of the largest cryptocurrencies when this series began. By definition, a cryptocurrency is a digital asset designed…

Across five of the six provinces studied, small-scale individual investors, those owning five properties or fewer, held the largest share of assessed value among rental properties. Their share ranged from 35.9% in Nova Scotia to 57.1% in Prince Edward Island. Nova Scotia was the exception, where institutional investors, primarily real estate investment trusts, pension funds,…

Stonebridge has reported weaker mortgage demand in the second quarter as higher borrowing costs and affordability pressures weighed on the market. The network said conditions could improve later this year if inflation and funding costs ease. Stonebridge’s latest Mortgage Market Index shows mortgage applications fell 18.5% year-on-year between April and June. Remortgage applications dropped 20.8%,…