Canada has officially given up on making housing truly affordable Not a very hopeful vision for 🇨🇦

“A Vaughan man who Premier Doug Ford said deserved a medal for allegedly using a gun to scare off carjackers, was implicated in a Ponzi scheme that preyed on the Pakistani community, Ontario Securities Commission documents show” thestar.com/news/gta/vaugh… #onpoli

Well this is just the kind of crap news I was not looking for:

Canada must expand civil asset forfeiture programs and ideally implement national unexplained wealth order legislation. Good stuff here from Rita Trichur-> Criminals use dirty money to buy real estate and other assets. Provinces should take them back theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…

Yikes, lots of smaller investors caught up in this, owed tens of millions collectively

New from me on Spacing: Council this week has a chance to greenlight sixplexes in residential neighbourhoods. The sky will not fall. In fact, this move represents a generational opportunity for council to repair Toronto's troubled housing market. spacing.ca/toronto/2025/0…

This is really bad spa parking, even just from a logistics perspective. This whole plan is terrible and a huge waste of public money and precious public land. We have something special in that space and we're turning it into a big private mess on our dime. Super. #onpoli

Jesus. This town. No affordable housing options allowed in the former suburbs: only the most expensive land in the city gets a chance to try six-plexes.

Uh, holy hell!

Canada’s population grew by just 20,000 in Q1 2025 — the second-slowest quarterly gain since 1946, tied with Q4 2014. Source: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quoti…

I hate these 2 classes of residents crap

I never want to hear a bad thing about Tavares in this city again. This is a crazy amount of money left on the table for the player he currently is. It's the second time he's taken less than market to choose home. Never short changes effort. Powers through the noise. He's the man

My wish for Mr. Marner: to make all the money he wants but to never lift the Cup for a non-Canadian team, and to be forgotten in his home town.

Toronto developers are increasingly seeking inventory loans to borrow against unsold units in their properties With 60% of financing requests now being for such loans, compared to almost none last year. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

I mean... it's a pretty anti-social act to revoke organ donor status because you don't want Boomers to take anything else from your literal corpse; but if this was a real trend it would say a lot more about how frayed our social bonds have become overall.

The hunt for liquidity continues...

Feels like Warner Brothers cancelling and binning whole movies for tax reasons...

Toronto housing corrections compared

We are officially at the highest number of active listings ever on TRREB:

Sounds almost personal, everything ok over there?