Star investigation: Homebuyers not getting full picture from protector Tarion thestar.com by Kenyon Wallace The corporation created by the province to protect buyers of new homes is keeping secret records of poor or incomplete work by builders, a Star investigation has found. Tarion Warranty Corp. has recovered nearly $30 million from developers in the past five […]
Illicit Chinese Cash Stops Flowing Into Canada Real Estate
Canada Loses Luster as Destination for Illicit Chinese Cash Chinese fugitives who touched down in Vancouver or Toronto with suitcases of illicit cash might find it harder to keep their fortunes. Canada became the first country to reach a deal with China to share forfeited assets in an effort to target international organized crime, according to […]
Kim Kardashian Publicly Humiliated By Toronto Skyscrapper Builder
Image Source One erects buildings, the other erects … well, you know … but it seems a construction company in Canada is taking a shot at Kim Kardashian with a hilarious street sign, and TMZ has the pic. The Bay Adelaide Centre in Toronto, Ontario is currently under construction — but in an effort to […]
Canadian money is in the hand of crackheads, gangsters, fraudsters, and lawbreakers ?
First, we got Mayor Rob Ford the Crackhead, then we have Laval Mayor Alexandre Duplessis the Sex Addict, Prior to that, we have gangsters, fraudsters, and all kind of lawbreakers sitting in Mayor offices all over the Great White North … What does it mean when we also know organization like CMHC has accumulated absolutely fragile and […]
Mayor Rob Ford: “How to be a poster boy amid scandals” ?
I mean real big time scandals … Real talk for real estate agents: Stop fighting the land transfer tax By Matt Elliott Metro Last Friday, Mayor Rob Ford paid a visit to the Toronto Real Estate Board. There to rattle off a speech that included his standard budget talking points, the beleaguered mayor received a standing ovation after promising — once […]
CMHC has been feeding a bunch of fat cats called “BANKs” ?
The shadow banking sector has been feasting on government-insured mortgages by Erica Alini The practice of packaging government-insured mortgages into securities has grown “substantially” since 2007 and such investment tools constitute the largest component of the so-called shadow banking sector—i.e. non-bank institutions that perform some bank-like functions—the Bank of Canada said yesterday in a new report. […]