In short when you decide not to tax something, and yet tax everything else, people flock to that something. Demand raises values. Houses quickly become unaffordable. They attract speculators and ...

As asset-class heterogeneity and complexity increases and when price discovery gets less transparent, it creates opportunities which astute managers can exploit. In these instances, active solutions ...

We know the muck is piling up in Ottawa. We know there’ll be an early election. We know who will win. But after that? Will houses become affordable and the kiddos stop whining and moaning? Nah. Not ...

Days ago, this pathetic blog asked what the landing of B20 – now scheduled for two weeks away – would mean to the real estate market. A few sketchy opinions were offered, ranging from a serious blow ...

They were not your typical neighbourhood arsonists. They all dressed alike, and quite smartly in matching black pants with tailored hoodies. Then there were the gas cans. New ones, it seems. All ...

Whoa, economist dude. Twelve figures starts at $100,000,000,000 – a hundred billion. Yikes. We haven’t seen red ink like that from the federal government since way back during the pandemic – when the ...

Nurse Jiggles just showed up in the sexy little green elf suit she pours herself into every mid-December. She appears to be giving the patients more complications – so we’d better get this emergency ...

Down she goes. Both fixed-rate fivers and VRMs are in the 4.5% range. The Bank of Canada delivered its second jumbo rate cut in a row yesterday. The Canadian dollar held its ground. Surprisingly. So ...