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Canadian house prices continue to drop
Tuesday, 30 Dec, 2008 – 8:16 | 2 Comments
Canadian house prices continue to drop

 

House prices across Canada have dropped 11 per cent since hitting a peak of $316,896 in May 2008, down to $280,880 in November, according to latest figures from the Canadian Real Estate Association. The drop is …

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Sask’s Regina economy the best among Canada’s major cities
Wednesday, 17 Dec, 2008 – 13:03 | No Comment
Sask’s Regina economy the best among Canada’s major cities

Regina can now brag that its economy is the best among Canada’s major cities, according to new rankings published by CIBC. Regina was the best city in Canada economically in 2008 as measured by the …

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Car theft in Canada falls slightly
Tuesday, 16 Dec, 2008 – 0:40 | No Comment
Car theft in Canada falls slightly

 

The rate of police-reported motor vehicle theft decreased 9% in 2007, the fourth consecutive annual decline. The rate peaked in 1996, and has been generally dropping since. According to police and insurance companies, reasons for this decline include the …

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Statistics Canada reports the number of Charitable donors falling
Tuesday, 4 Nov, 2008 – 12:39 | No Comment

Charitable donations reported by Canadian taxfilers surpassed $8.6 billion in 2007, up 1.4 per cent from 2006. At the same time, Statistics Canada reports the number of donors fell 0.9 per cent to just under 5.7 …

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Waters off Newfoundland and Vancouver Island among “world’s great dive sites
Sunday, 2 Nov, 2008 – 7:57 | 2 Comments
Waters off Newfoundland and Vancouver Island among “world’s great dive sites

The waters off Newfoundland and Vancouver Island are among “the world’s great dive sites” cited in the new Fodor’s book “Adventure Travel.” Second World War shipwrecks off Newfoundland’s Bell Island are accessible to scuba-divers year-round, the …

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Canada’s housing market balance stabilizes in third quarter
Wednesday, 15 Oct, 2008 – 23:32 | No Comment
Canada’s housing market balance stabilizes in third quarter

The number of properties listed via the MLS® systems of Canada’s major markets was down from its peak in the third quarter of 2008, according to statistics released by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA). …

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Home sales drop by 42 per cent in Greater Vancouver
Friday, 3 Oct, 2008 – 7:20 | No Comment
Home sales drop by 42 per cent in Greater Vancouver

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says the number of residential property sales declined 42.9 per cent in September from a year earlier.

The number of residential properties sold in Metro Vancouver dropped from 2,776 …

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Newcomers earning more money in Western Canada
Saturday, 13 Sep, 2008 – 9:03 | No Comment

Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver remain the destinations of choice for many newcomers; however, this trend is slowly changing.  In 2007, cities outside the three above-mentioned received close to one third of Canada’s 236,000 new immigrants.

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