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OTTAWA – Thank you, Mr. Speaker.Last week, I was back home in Toronto–where I had a chance to visit with some young people at the Boys and Girls Club in Regent Park.It was March Break last week, so they were pretty focused on having…

OTTAWA – On the eve of a federal election this fall, the Liberal government is looking to help more Canadians buy their first homes by picking up a portion of their mortgage costs and increasing the amount they can borrow from their…

OTTAWA –  Highlights from the federal Liberal budget tabled Tuesday by Finance Minister Bill Morneau:–  $1.7 billion over five years, and $586 million a year after that, for a Canada Training Benefit to help workers upgrade skills…

CALGARY – Four years after an oil price crash that's been blamed for more than 40,000 oilpatch job cuts in Western Canada, stability is returning to the residential rental market.Apartment owners including Boardwalk REIT and Mainstreet…

OTTAWA – The Trudeau government will take steps in Tuesday's federal budget to make home-buying more affordable with changes affecting supply, demand and regulation, The Canadian Press has learned.Finance Minister Bill Morneau has…

The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) has updated its forecast for home sales activity via the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) Systems of Canadian real estate Boards and Associations in 2019 and extended its outlook to include 2020.…

The average price for homes sold last month was down 5.2 per cent from last year as the number of sales dropped to a 10-year low for the seasonally weak month of February, the Canadian Real Estate Association reported Friday.The…

Danish architectural firm COBE headed by Dan Stubbergard has designed a new mixed use development in Toronto. A client group consisting of Dream Unlimited, Kilmer Van Nostrand Co. Limited and Tricon Capital Group has commissioned COBE to…

VANCOUVER – The City of Vancouver says it's opened more than 2,000 case files and taken enforcement action against 820 suspected unauthorized short-term rentals since new rules came into effect requiring operators to have a business…

The Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) has submitted a targeted set of recommendations to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, aimed at bringing consistency and transparency to the Site Plan Approval (SPA) process. Prior…