An increase in Greater Vancouver home sales

Greater Vancouver recorded 3,951 sales on the Multiple Listing Service in June, a 7.4-per-cent increase from sales in June 2006 -- and the second-best June on record, according to statistics from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver.

Canada Real Estate Market Continues to Boom

Realtors sold one hundred and 20 million dollars worth of residential real estate last month. That's up 95 percent from June of 2006 when almost 62 million dollars worth of residential real estate changed hands.

City of Toronto's sweeping tax proposal

A proposed City of Toronto tax would effectively double the land transfer taxes that he would have to pay, meaning that he will potentially pony up close to $2,000 on his small, 600-square-foot bachelor loft that is on the site of a former garment factory.

Canada Independent and strong

Forty-two years ago, George Grant pronounced that Canada had ceased to exist. In Lament for a Nation, he argued that the distinctive aspects of our culture and politics could not withstand the integrating forces of continental capitalism and universal modernism radiating from the United States.They too are wrong, for Canada is a powerful country. We have the world's second largest expanse of real estate.