Take a Look at This - NDP would expand BC's foreign buyer tax



Based on real estate board figures, the tax has wiped $2 billion in equity out of the Metro Vancouver housing market, or about twice what B.C.'s Ministry of Finance had expected. In a recent forecast, the Canadian Real Estate Association said B.C ...


Take a Look at This - BC's working poor: Meet the people whose jobs don't pay the bills

Of Canada's largest cities, Vancouver was second-worst with more than 100,000 low-income earners, or nearly one in 10 of the working-age population.




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