Vancouver city council exploring a property tax increase of 0% in 2026 due to mounting cost of living crisis. dailyhive.com/vancouver/vanc…

It is perhaps because the NDP has become the party of urban, champagne socialists, rather than the industrial working class, that they've utterly lost touch with reality. Their priorities have shifted away from cost of living issues to prioritize identity politics and a

Elbows down! Thanks for playing.

Layoffs at Wesgroup, one of Vancouvers largest developers. Sign of the times.

Ironically as housing affordability improves through falling prices it will create additional job losses. Catch 22 for policy makers.

CMHC discovers they’d be insolvent if affordability returned to 2004 levels, abandons goal.

Freeland rips David Eby for BC Ferries debacle. Elbows down eh!

Canadian Oil Sands Production Expected to Reach All-time Highs this Year Average breakeven price is $27/b WTI 😎 boereport.com/2025/06/24/can…

Canada's CPI report today still shows home rental prices rising by 4.5% Y/Y in May, down from 9% at the peak last year. On the ground we know market rents are outright declining across most major metros.

BC considering scaling back its unrealistic EV targets, noting EV adoption in the province is declining after subsidies were scaled back. Richard Dias energyfuturesinstitute.ca/news-releases/…

The NATO announcement is welcome. Liberal Democracies should be very well armed IMO, and Canada has been a free-rider for decades. But let's get real, '3.5% of GDP by 2035' is nigh impossible without some major accounting trickery. nato.int/cps/en/natohq/…

This weeks CPI data suggested rents added 0.3 percentage points last month on a reported 4.5% annual increase. Fade the headline.

Sounds about right.

US Federal Housing Finance Agency issues order to count Bitcoin & crypto as an asset for a mortgage. Canadian banks will be years, likely many years behind.