Canada is approaching total irrelevance in the world’s fastest-growing continent, experts argue, saying that a pattern of disengagement in trade, diplomacy and investment in Africa means Ottawa is ceding ground to Russia and China.
When Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell trekked to Capitol Hill in June of last year, he reiterated his commitment to restoring inflation to the central bank’s 2% annual target and warned that a period of slow economic growth and a softening of the labor market lay ahead. Things didn’t quite go …