aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

Market Strength Extends Through 2010BCREA Fall 2009 Housing ForecastBCREA release The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) has just released its Fall 2009 Housing Forecast. BC Multiple Listing Service (MLS ) residential sales are est...

topics: economy, employment, unemployment

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

After two weeks of intense election-no-election drama in Ottawa, it s obviously by now that we will not have a fall election.Ignatieff has shown he s a gambler, and he has strategically changed the ecological environment in Ottawa. Now after years of...

topics: economy, election, employment, federal-government, health-care

aggregated from: Price Tags

I don t usually do a lot of postings on Vancouver s real-estate market since it s a favoured topic in so many other places. But Tom Durning passed along an interesting post from a Portland blogger who picked up on an interesting anomaly:During this...

topics: density, employment, housing, real-estate, unemployment

aggregated from: Public Eye Online

In October, the provincial government was recognized as one of British Columbia's top 50 employers. But, according to British Columbia's merit commissioner Joy Illington, one of its employment practices is less than top notch. In her 2008/09 annual r...

topics: employment, provincial-government

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

The title is taken from an opinion piece on the Straight s web page forwarded to me by reader Mike Harridon. It is written by Elizabeth Murphy who has a background in development and urban land economics and has worked in the private sector, for the...

topics: business, city-of-vancouver, density, developer, developers

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

I have to start with an apology. Recently I wrote that Langara students don t have U-Pass. Turns out I am behind the times againLangara College and Capilano University were added to the program only in May 2008 and January 2009, respectively.I wish I...

topics: employment, gateway, health-care, liberal, liberals

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

Immigration lawyer David Cohen is reporting that CIC is undergoing a pilot project in which children of temporary foreign workers in Alberta (guess why) and Ontario can now apply for work permits. Looks like our government is determined to expand t...

aggregated from: Bill Tieleman

I am indebted to BC Mary at The Legislature Raids and to regular poster North Van's Grumps for finding the link to Justice Elizabeth Bennett's written ruling of July 20, 2009 on the Basi-Virk defence disclosure application.While I reported on this de...

topics: attorney-general, bc-rail, business, elected, employment

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

BCREA survey - A new survey of BC homeowners and renters on housing affordability and green housing issues suggests consumer confidence concerning real estate purchases may be improving..Sponsored by the British Columbia Real Estate Association (BC...

topics: burnaby, city-of-vancouver, economy, election, employment

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

This has been a bit of an issue for me for some years. I knew little about alternative transportation fuels before I came to BC but then I had nearly three years doing little else. I had also been involved peripherally in the decisions about the fu...

topics: economy, emissions, employment, sustainability, transit