Household debt

Opinion: A report quietly released by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada warns mortgage specialists are incentivized to sell mortgages that yield higher commissions, with insufficient oversight

From 2017: Canadians have been using their homes as piggy banks. The fallout has begun.

Opinion: When the U.S. housing market crashed many Americans simply abandoned their mortgages. Think that couldn’t happen here? Guess again.

Econ-o-Metric: The risks are rising as Canada’s borrowing binge accelerates

The Bank of Canada says we won’t have a U.S.-style housing crash, but we resemble pre-crisis America in other dangerous ways

And increasingly they are tapping family and friends for funds

Ways to manage your debt before you’re under for good

An expert in consumer insolvency describes what it’s like on the front lines of Canada’s worsening household debt crisis

The Bank has taken to YouTube to warn Canadians about the dangers of too much debt and unrealistic house price expectations. Will anyone listen?

A generation of workers and borrowers have grown up never knowing that interest rates can also go up. They’re about to learn what it feels like.