We’re now down to a birth rate of 1.25 children per woman. A record. By way of comparison, the US rate is 1.6 kiddos, which is being called a demographic crisis – and blamed in large part on the cost ...

First, don’t be clingy about GICs or insanely afraid of the future. History has shown that over a reasonable period of time ...

Just days after the prime minister launched Build Canada Homes, the vision blew up. The feds are committing $36 billion in tax dollars to jumpstart housing, throw up half a million new units a year ...

It’s a man-only organization dedicated to ‘patriotism’, which is the new catch-all buzzword for white, Christian, ...

The RRSP/RRIF meltdown strategy is based on the premise that withdrawing funds from taxable registered accounts earlier in ...

Three more sleeps until the first interest rate cut of the entire year. Those little hairs on the back of realtor and mortgage broker necks are tingling. It’s been a dogawful year, after all.

So that’s it. The last hurdle to falling interest rates has been cleared. Tomorrow morning the Bank of Canada rate will drop a quarter point to 2.5% and along with it the bank prime will wilt, plus ...

Geoff lives in East Van. A doctor. His squeeze is an accountant. “We’re the kind of people that could buy in this moronic city,” he says. But they don’t. Instead they’re happy, wealthy renters. More ...

That’s the other shoe dropping. Yesterday the first hit the floor as Ottawa desperately unveiled 30-year mortgages and a ballooning of mortgage insurance to cover $1.5 million buys. No, houses are not ...

“People are taking big hits,” says realtor Dan. You betcha. Sellers. Lenders. Brokers. Desperate, failed buyers. And property agents as well – now, suddenly, part of a herd that’s being quietly culled ...