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Canada Weekly: Housing market weakness becomes harder to ignore

The softening housing market has mostly flown under the radar, but that is soon likely to change following April’s data, which showed house prices taking another sharp leg down. Combined with the steep decline in manufacturing sales volumes reported for March, it is increasingly clear that US tariffs – despite recent de-escalation – are starting to take a real toll on the economy.

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