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Plant trees
Ever notice how
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Pacific Coastal Airlines has now started servicing the Penticton airport with direct flights from Calgary and Vancouver.
Penticton is currently served by Air Canada Jazz with three daily Dash-8 flights to Vancouver on weekdays and two daily flights on Saturdays and Sundays. Pacific Coastal Airlines will round out the current available flights by providing three flights daily, Monday to Fr ...
Tips for mortgage shoppers from today's Vancouver Sun
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The Canadian Press
Published: Monday, January 22, 2007
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complicated.
The overwhe ...
What's in store for the Greater Vancouver's
housing market?
On November 14th, Canada Mortgage and Housing
Corporation (CMHC) held its 12th Annual Housing Outlook Conference,
Shifting Gears: Housing Market to 2010. In addition to CMHC's
forecasts for the BC and Vancouver housing markets, this year's
conference featured the results of a recently completed study by
the Urban Futures Institute, T ...
On Thursday, the Government announced a federal Surplus of 4.2
billion for
this year. The finance minister also projected a surplus of 2 to 4
billion
for the next 5 years. They promised to pass these savings to low
income
Canadians by reducing the income tax. On the corporate side the
Government
promised to make Canada as the "country with the lowest tax on
investment
within the G7". More imp ...
Quarter shares are going from residential to business
classification (if it looks and smells like a hotel it's taxed like
one).
In many previous articles we mentioned our 'lack of like' for
fractional ownership ... quarter-share and in particular most condo
hotels. We also mentioned that the province was contemplating
classifying most quarter-share units in resorts as businesses (in
effect d ...
In U.S. the Fed left interest rates unchanged at 4.25%. In its
statement
the Fed said " Going forward, the economy seems likely to
expand at a
moderate pace". Friday's report on economic growth showed that
the
economy grew by 1.6% in the third quarter compared to
expectation of 2%
growth. This was due to slow down of housing and exports. In
fact the
housing slow down subtract ...
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Various recent housing market reports have been the topic of discussion in the Vancouver Sun in late September. All seem to agree that prices are leveling (the headline stated "price hikes have tapered off") and also the obvious, that the number of sales for the past few months are down from the same months last year.
The best analytical comments came from Cameron Muir of Canada Mortgage and ...
On Friday the latest report on Canadian GDP (measure of growth)
was out.
The Canadian economy grew by 0.2% in July. However, the growth
for the
third quarter is likely to be around 2% annualized, which is
below the
forecast. That is mostly due to the recent economic data in the
U.S.
which "points to a significant moderation in activity, which has
and
will continue to restrain ...