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OTTAWA — The Canadian economy grew slightly in November and looks to have stalled further at the end of the year as higher interest rates began to slow spending.Statistics Canada's preliminary estimate for real GDP in December indicates…

TORONTO – The moderation of the Greater Toronto Area's housing market intensified last month as the region's real estate board found July sales fell 47 per cent from the same time last year and 24 per cent from this past June.…

Average GTA Home Price Hovers At $1.3M – TRREB Forecasts Pace of Price Growth to Slow This Year

OTTAWA – Canada's population grew at a faster rate than many of its peers, rising to over 36.99 million on census day last year despite a historic slowdown caused by COVID-19.Statistics Canada said the national population grew by 5.2…

Kelly Rae, the administrator of Arran, Sask., says the denizens of dwindling rural communities like her own are clinging to a vanishing way of life in Canada.Between 2011 and 2021, the village west of the Manitoba border saw its…

TORONTO – When Mark Garner looks around downtown Toronto all he sees is growth.At Yonge and Gerrard streets, the executive director of the Downtown Yonge Business Improvement Area watches the lobby of the 80-storey Aura condos – the…

Calgary's downtown office vacancy rate has declined for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.Commercial real estate firm Avison Young says the city's downtown office vacancy rate ticked down in the fourth quarter…

CBRE says Canada’s national office vacancy rate rose to 15.7% in the third quarter of 2021, surpassing levels reached during the dot-com bubble and global financial crisis. But the outlook is improving, and although the fourth wave has…