Canadian housing market show 0.6% growth The Canadian housing market has slowed its decline to 3.1 per cent year over year, with a 0.6 per cent increase in home sales last month, according to BMO Chief Economist Doug Porter, citing recent data from the Canadian Real Estate Association. Porter notes that since the implementation of new mortgage [...]
Lavoie, Codilla and Yager triump at WBC Western Championships Friday night the Cascades Casino in Langley played host to the WBC Western Championships. When the dust settled, three more B.C. pugilist qualified themselves for the first-ever WBC Canadian championships in July. In the light middleweight (154 pounds) WBC Western Championships, Remy Lavoie from North Burnaby Boxing [...]
Christy Clark started campaign 22 points behind Adrian Dix and NDP The strangest scene of a strange election campaign was the final one: Liberal Leader Christy Clark taking the stage Tuesday night to declare a solid majority victory. Clark’s come-from-behind win astounded many pundits and pollsters, who had the Liberal leader down by 22 points at [...]
Christine Sinclair a powerhouse for Portland Thorns FC, earns Player of the Month honours Burnaby soccer legend and team Canada captain Christine Sinclair continues to be a trailblazer in women’s soccer, now becoming the first-ever Player of the Month in the newly formed National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL). The NWSL began play in their first [...]
NDP pledge to hike taxes could affect investment, leading to fewer BC jobs BC jobs and investment could be heading for a rough ride over the next few years with a new NDP government, according to figures compiled by a leading Canadian economist. Jack Mintz, head of the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, [...]
BC Soccer Premier League Match of the Week features battle of 1st and 3rd place teams With an action-packed weekend coming up in the EA Sports BC Soccer Premier League, a highly anticipated match between U18 Mountain FC Girls and Coquitlam Metro-Ford SC is featured in this Match of the Week. Mountain has been playing terrific [...]
Canada should concentrate on training its own citizens, not using temporary foreign workers Canada has become too dependent on the temporary foreign workers program and has failed to address the lack of skilled workers through domestic-made solutions, says a new report into foreign workers in Canada. Kevin McQuillan, the author of All The Workers We [...]
Langley candidate Mary Polak accuses Hauptman of leaking campaign strategy to NDP The B.C. provincial election became even weirder Tuesday as the campaign manager for Liberal incumbent Mary Polak resigned over “hateful attitudes” by party members toward gays, followed by allegations from the candidate that he leaked campaign strategy to the NDP. Todd Hauptman resigned Tuesday [...]
Energy regulator orders Enbridge to fix pump station emergency shutdown systems The National Energy Board (NEB) has given Enbridge Inc. until 2016 to comply with rules tied to its emergency shutdown system requirements. After an October 2011 inspection, the NEB found 117 of its 125 pump stations were not complying with regulations. The NED inspection [...]
Expert suggests investing income tax refund in RESP With the average income tax refund at approximately $1,700 according to the Canada Revenue Agency, families with young children ought to be looking at making contributions to a Registered Education Savings Plan to secure their education. Parents with young children can defer paying down the mortgage, springing [...]
