VANCOUVER - The half-billion-dollar Ritz-Carlton hotel-condo project in downtown Vancouver is officially dead — a victim of the global recession.
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It is often said that the best lessons are learned during the toughest times. Well, during this, the fourth cyclical downtown in housing prices and sales in the last quarter century, let me share with you some lessons I have learned about living through the housing market doldrums ...
he Victory Square Cenotaph is Vancouver's official war memorial, and is in excellent shape after a recent restoration.
But Vancouver's most moving war memorial hasn't been as lucky. The Angel of Victory has been carrying a dead soldier heavenward since 1922, when the Canadian Pacific Railway commissioned Montreal sculptor Coeur de Lion McCarthy to commemorate the 1,115 CPR workers killed dur ...
VANCOUVER — A growing number of British Columbians think this is a good time to buy a home, though most say it isn’t a good time to sell, a new Ipsos Reid poll has found.
The poll found that some 71 per cent of respondents said it is a somewhat good or very good time to buy real estate.
In November, only 60 per cent of respondents told Ipsos Reid it was a good time to buy.
In the latest poll, ...
Canadian banks are typically leveraged at 18 to 1--compared with U.S.. banks at 26 to 1.
Fareed Zakaria
NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Feb 16, 2009
The legendary editor of The New Republic, Michael Kinsley, once held a "Boring Headline Contest" and decided that the winner was "Worthwhile Canadian Initiative." Twenty-two years later, the magazine was res ...
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NSPECT THIS
B.C. is the first province to license home inspectors, the province announced Friday. The change, scheduled to start March 31, was made to better protect buyers, ensure qualified inspections and streamline a complaints process. Inspections will be monitored with the potential for penalties as high as $5,000 in cases of shoddy work. Previously, home inspector training had been volu ...
