Feb 24 2023 — Steve Lafleur — Fraser Institute — Statistics Canada recently released data on ownership of residential properties in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia in 2020. Some of the numbers made headlines. For instance, investor ownership of residential properties ranged from 20.2 per cent in Ontario to 31.5 per cent in Nova Scotia. Moreover, 41.9 per cent of condominium […]
May 14 2021 — Steve Lafleur — Fraser Institute — Obviously, the pandemic has changed many things in a relatively short period of time, including housing demand in municipalities across Canada. Consider the Greater Toronto Area, where the detached housing market is red hot while the market for smaller apartments and condos is not. But as apartment renters enjoy this new landscape of lower prices […]
Dec 23 2016 — Steve Lafleur — Fraser Institute — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley recently claimed that this was a good year for her government. For Albertans, however, it was another very difficult year. Aside from the approval of two crucial pipeline projects, Albertans haven’t had much to celebrate. The economy is no longer in free fall, but with the unemployment rate at nine per […]