The reason: the downpayment. Amassing the quarter-million needed to buy the average detached in Vancouver, for example, is ...

Anyway, the whole notion of a land-locked region with a scant five million people in it becoming a sovereign nation is bonkers. Smith should never have played footsie with economic lightweights or ...

There are 8.4 million people in Canada who are now 65 or older. That’s 20% of the population. Of those, 7.5 million old snorts are collecting OAS monthly payments. That includes just over a hundred ...

Buying a house is a form of forced savings by paying the mortgage every month and maybe in 25 – 30 years you might actually ...

The wire was an inch thick and caused nothing but problems.

According to data from the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), reverse mortgages in Canada continue to grow at a rapid rate. As of June 2024, outstanding reverse mortgage ...

Capital markets are enormously complex yet surprisingly simple. They’ll always tilt, on a risk-adjusted basis, in the direction where there’s the greatest opportunity to make money. This is one reason ...

But it isn’t. This is dog-whistle politics, classically blaming outsiders, or ‘them’ for wrongs being committed against heritage Albertans, or ‘us’. In this case, them are usually brown and Muslim. Us ...

As suggested here a few days ago, PSPP is now the Quebec premier. Yeah, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is a separatist. He’d give that province its own constitution, draft a proclamation of independence and ...

Mon Dieu! Upwards of 300,000 Florida properties are owned by Quebeckers. In fact, the state counts 60,000 people from that province as being residents. They clump together in places like Pompano Beach ...