Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 25 May, 2023 10:19 AM
Canada's total residential mortgage debt has climbed six per cent in the past year to 2.08-trillion-dollars.
But Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation says the rate of growth has actually slowed compared with recent years.
Our Senior Specialist of #Housing Research Tania Bourassa-Ochoa discusses trends in the residential #mortgage industry and Canada’s rising mortgage #debt.
It says that's due to inflation, rapidly rising interest rates and cooling housing markets, which have weakened consumer confidence and left fewer people looking to buy a home.
Ridge Meadows RCMP frontline members were first on scene and with support from BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) assessed that the cyclist suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The cyclist was transported to hospital.
The former governor general said an inquiry cannot be undertaken in public because of the sensitivity of the intelligence involved, and there would be considerable overlap with the work that he has already been doing to investigate the issue of alleged foreign meddling in the last two federal elections.
The museum will feature an exhibition titled "The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act," with the July 1 opening date coinciding with the centennial of the passing of the act which effectively halted all immigration from China.
Eligible passengers, including Nexus members, won't have to take their shoes off and can keep their laptops and liquids in their bags instead of putting them onto the X-ray conveyor belt.
New numbers released by Statistics Canada show investor-occupants made up almost 10 per cent of British Columbia homeowners in 2020. The agency attributes the high numbers in B-C to incremental forms of density, such as single-detached houses with secondary suites or laneway units, duplexes, or triplexes.
The province is offering 500-thousand dollars in grants for programs or plans aimed at helping seniors lead independent, active lives. Applications open June 1st for the age-friendly grants, which can be as much as 25-thousand dollars each.
