It’s been a rough year for our dollar aka ‘the loonie’. As seen in the chart below, the CAD/USD has been trading in a range ...

The cliff has turned into a pothole. And it’s highly unlikely there’s any massive wave of listings coming from people facing ...

Turns out A is a second-gen Canadian whose parents came here (when the locals were still toleratnt and welcoming) in the Eighties. “They did not have the know-how to teach me anything about investing ...

Yes, by bad policy. And thus we have a complex web of conflicting, uncoordinated, kneejerk, badly-understood policies that ...

Care to start a riot? Just suggest to someone who has saved nothing but paid their house off that real estate capital gains should be taxed. Blood and guts everywhere. But, we need to talk. The tax ...

When this week started indigent visitors to this pathetic blog roasted me for saying Canadian house prices would decline by 15%, then go limp. Too little!, they cried. As the week ended, hoary posters ...

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 ...

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 ...