government

OTTAWA – The federal government finished the week by touting the popularity of a program designed to quickly build or buy affordable housing for the nation's most vulnerable – one piece of a larger home-price puzzle.The program first…

Ontario Premier Doug Ford met Sunday with leaders of rural, remote and northern communities to discuss their housing challenges as issues of rapid price growth and lack of supply are felt far beyond urban borders.The talks came…

VICTORIA — More financial help is on the way for British Columbia businesses forced to stay closed for at least another month as the province tries to contain the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.A statement from the Ministry…

TORONTO — Ontario's largest communities will get new funding to help speed up development approvals, Premier Doug Ford announced as he hosted a housing summit Wednesday, but the municipal leaders he met with say much stronger action is…

The Canadian Real Estate Association says annual home sales reached a new high in 2021, eclipsing the previous record set in 2020 by about 20 per cent.The association said Monday that about 667,000 residential properties changed hands…

The Financial Accountability Office of Ontario (FAO) released its Costing Climate Change Impacts to Public Infrastructure (CIPI): Buildings report. The study assesses the financial impacts of three climate hazards: extreme rainfall, extreme…

VICTORIA – Homeowners in British Columbia whose property is valued at just under $2 million will still be eligible for the annual homeowner grant.The provincial government announced Wednesday it has raised the grant threshold to…

The Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers (QPAREB) has released its 2021 fourth quarter report on the residential real estate market for the Province of Quebec, based on the real estate brokers’ Centris provincial database.…

The Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers (QPAREB) has released its residential real estate market statistics for the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) for the month of December, based on the real estate brokers’…

A record 121,712 sales were reported through the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board’s (TRREB) MLS® System in 2021 – up 7.7 per cent from the previous 2016 high of 113,040 and up 28 per cent compared to 2020. TRREB reports that record demand…