March 15, 2021
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March 12, 2021
Bank of Canada announces changes to securities repo operations
In line with its objectives to support core funding markets and to foster the well-functioning of the Government of Canada securities market, the Bank of Canada is announcing changes to securities repo operations (SROs). -
March 11, 2021
Media Availability: Restaurants Canada
Savings in the time of COVID-19, and the outlook for household spending — Deputy Governor Lawrence Schembri takes questions from reporters by videoconference following his remarks (14:45 (ET) approx.). -
March 11, 2021
Speech: Restaurants Canada
Savings in the time of COVID-19, and the outlook for household spending — Deputy Governor Lawrence Schembri speaks by videoconference to Restaurants Canada (13:30 (ET) approx.). -
March 11, 2021
COVID-19, savings and household spending
Deputy Governor Lawrence Schembri talks about the Bank’s latest interest rate announcement and discusses how COVID-19 has affected savings and the outlook household spending. -
March 11, 2021
Household consumption in a pandemic
Deputy Governor Lawrence Schembri talks about how COVID-19 has affected household saving and spending patterns and discusses the Bank’s decision yesterday to leave the policy rate unchanged. -
March 10, 2021
Bank of Canada will hold current level of policy rate until inflation objective is sustainably achieved, continues quantitative easing
The Bank of Canada today held its target for the overnight rate at the effective lower bound of ¼ percent, with the Bank Rate at ½ percent and the deposit rate at ¼ percent. The Bank is maintaining its extraordinary forward guidance, reinforced and supplemented by its quantitative easing (QE) program, which continues at its current pace of at least $4 billion per week. -
March 8, 2021
Operational details for upcoming secondary market purchases of Government of Canada securities (March 15-26)
As previously announced, the Bank of Canada (the Bank) launched on April 1, 2020 a program to purchase Government of Canada securities in the secondary market – the Government Bond Purchase Program (GBPP). -
February 26, 2021
Law Enforcement Award of Excellence for Counterfeit Deterrence
The call for nominations is open until April 30, 2021. -
February 25, 2021
New strategy embeds diversity and inclusion into Bank of Canada’s work
The Bank of Canada has long recognized that the inclusion of diverse identities and ideas fosters innovative thinking that results in better policy outcomes for Canadians. It’s also the right thing to do. With today’s publication of its Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, the Bank is reinforcing its commitments to reduce any barriers to employment and support employees, while embedding diversity and inclusion into every aspect of its work.