Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says his government is pausing a subsidy for wine bottlers that the province’s wineries said undercuts their operations.
Wholesales for wine, spirits and coolers rose last summer, while beer wholesales fell.
You don’t have a family doctor, and you can’t get an admission bed. So you end up waiting and waiting in the ER for a physician who might not be able to help much, writes Dr. Brian Wall.
Owners of the multi-million-dollar properties still see themselves as middle class, a warped self-image that has a big impact on renters
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is introducing new measures to tighten standards on colleges, responding to criticism that Canada’s education sector is bringing in so many foreign students that it’s boosting pressure on housing and the labor market.
Steve Nguyen runs two Airbnb units in a downtown Victoria apartment building, including one decorated and paying homage to the television show 'Friends.' He says he’s still reeling from the news he soon won't be able to operate it as a short-term rental since he doesn’t live there.
Tourists had positive reviews after staying in a downtown Vancouver tower with lots of Airbnb units. A resident said living there is "hell"
B.C.'s new legislation on short-term rentals will triple the fines for hosts who break the rules, and bring in a number of new requirements for operators in an attempt to return units to the long-term market.
My mistake thanks for the clarification.
Vancouver came 41st on list of cities with the most centi-millionaires and billionaires
Copy of petition says city is seeking order quashing July 19 decision by solicitor general that directs Surrey to continue police transition
A copy of the petition provided to the media says Surrey is seeking an order quashing the July 19 decision by the B.C. solicitor general that directs Surrey to continue the police transition.
When it comes to addressing the housing crisis, few people think about zoning. The correlation isn’t easily apparent, despite this being the most powerful tool cities have.
In a statement to Global News, Hullo Ferries said its vessels are designed to travel at a high rate of speed, therefore it must abide by Transport Canada's High-Speed Craft Code.
I can’t understand how people look at PP
If you’re the average Canadian and your rent has doubled or tripled, groceries have jumped 50%, and your health care system is collapsing in the last 8 years since Trudeau took power isn’t desperately wanting any alternative an obvious reaction? Many districts are effectively a two party race and if your only goal is to ensure Trudeau isn’t PM, the Cons are your only options.
I’m not saying Pollievre will make any meaningful difference, but at the very least he’s been saying our housing system is broken. Trudeau’s had 8 years and things have only become much worse.
Knowing justin trudeau, some stern words with no action are the best we can hope for
And after paying all that money you still have to live in London 😔
Genuinely baffling take, our entire system prioritizes the homeowner above all else. Policies like a GST exemption are the smallest of crumbs in a world where it's literally illegal to build an apartment building in 80% of the land in our largest cities.
Only looking at (taxpayer-funded) subsidies alone, homeowners get FHSAs, first time buyer tax credit, home buyer's plan, tax-free imputed rent, unlimited capital gains exemption, and a slew of other provincial grants. This is all while they build equity! What do renters get in comparison?
Ignoring these hypothetical numbers, an abundance of housing means more options for renters. In this case the developers have to compete for our rental money. This means lower rents.
Housing is financialized because it’s a scarce commodity. Removing scarcity removes financialization.
An abundance of housing improves options and lowers rents.
I have no love for the Liberals but this is indisputably good policy for incentivizing rental supply. Gotta give credit where it's due.
That is a 100% indisputably correct assumption. Vacancy taxes worked where they've been implemented to incentivize the occupancy of empty homes and the overwhelming majority of homes have people living in them.
I need you in every housing thread I post here.
The point of this article is we can and should make room in Toronto. There’s plenty of space if we accommodate with a better built form that isn’t sprawling detached homes.
“let’s tear down everything here that all the existing residents chose and replace it with something else that we think is more logical”.
This feels like a dishonest interpretation that misses a lot of the nuance presented in the article.
Twenty-two workers at the Dunbar location voted to join the USW in February, joining two other Metro Vancouver Starbucks — Clayton Heights in Surrey and Valley Centre in Langley — in beginning negotiations for a collective agreement. Around the same time, workers at non-unionized shops in B.C. were given pay increases.
oh so they actually can afford to pay their staff more.....
a) this is before Toronto instituted the empty homes tax - less incentive for homeowners to rent out their empty unit
b) this is before the explosion of rental price increases post-covid - even less incentive for homeowners to rent out their unit
c) measuring lights on or off a couple of times a year isn't a great proxy for assessing empty units
Yeah sure. This is more a response to the top level comment (and the general sentiment) that empty units and financialization cause the scarcity, instead of just addressing the scarcity.
Subsidizing homeowners with a taxpayer-funded cheque for $500 is regressive policy for a leftist party. Even if we're means-testing it, there's so many better ways that money could be spent.
Once again, as a renter dealing with year over year increases of hundreds of dollars per month, I get nothing.
Ah okay I'm asking because people seem to always point to empty homes as the problem and support that thesis with anecdotal evidence.
The reality is new vacancy taxes in Ontario and BC captured a lot of those empty homes and there's simply nowhere near the scale of empty homes to make any reasonable dent in the housing crisis, even if we converted every single one to occupied.
In a city with 1.25 million homes, why are we so focused on "taxing empty investment homes" (something that already exists) for a few thousand units instead of building new homes?