For the first time in more than a decade, motorists in B.C. could see their car insurance go down slightly, following an announcement Tuesday by ICBC.
Citing a significant drop in the number of claims, the insurance corporation said it has asked the the B.C. Utilities Commission for permission to reduce basic insurance rates by 1.9 per cent.
The 100th Anniversary PNE Parade will take place on Friday, August 20th at 7pm, the night before the Fair opens.
The one-time special event will see 100 years of PNE magic travel along the picturesque Beach Avenue in English Bay from Stanley Park to Sunset Beach. Part of the city-wide celebration of the 2010 PNE, this parade will be unlike anything ever seen in Vancouver – paying tribute to all the special memories and highlights of the Fair’s 10 decades of history.
The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) says national home sales activity continued to trend down in July 2010. The decline was almost entirely the result of fewer sales in British Columbia and Ontario. A slowdown in demand in these two provinces had been widely expected in July, as many purchases were brought forward into the first half of the year in advance of the introduction of the HST.
National home sales activity continued to trend down in July 2010. The decline was almost entirely the result of fewer sales in British Columbia and Ontario.
Canada’s real estate market is due for a “moderate correction†with homes that are anywhere from 10 to 15 per cent overvalued, says the TD Bank.
“The excessive pricing of Canadian housing in relation to fundamentals is now clearly correcting,†TD Bank economist Grant Bishop said in an economic note Monday. “We expect a moderate correction in prices over the coming year.â€
When he first moved to Whistler 11 years ago, Mike Wilson was a seasonal resident who would head home to Mississauga, Ont., come summer because the restaurant he worked for closed its doors when the snow melted.
Canada avoided the brutal financial meltdown that plagued the U.S. economy, but there are some red flags that make recovery for this country “by no means a sure thing,†says a leading U.S. economist.
Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner, New York Times columnist and renowned economic pundit, described Canada as “a very calm, very happy story†during the world economic crisis.
Canada escaped relatively unscathed, through a combination of good luck and sound, conservative regulation of banking and consumer debt in which “it is not so easy to use your house as an ATM,†Krugman told the Canadian Bar Association.
Simon Fraser University’s pipe band has hit a sour note in its hopes for a three-peat world bagpipe title.
The malaise in Canada’s housing market is deepening, as record-low interest rates and a vast selection of homes prove to be insufficient incentives to draw new buyers into the market.
Just days after the Canadian Real Estate Association downgraded its sales forecast for the rest of the year, data from British Columbia and Alberta show sharp double-digit decreases in the number of homes sold in July compared to a year ago.
Vancouver has vowed to become the greenest city in the world by 2020. New condos in Toronto are going up without any parking spaces. Regina is doing away with one-way streets to improve public transit access in a revitalized downtown.