• Rent control in Ontario: One Toronto landlord raised the rent $7K a month. Here’s what experts say needs to change,Manuela Vega Staff Reporter

    Rent control in Ontario: One Toronto landlord raised the rent $7K a month. Here’s what experts say needs to change

    Advocates are pointing to major rent control loopholes as the biggest issues for tenants struggling with affordability and rising costs of living.

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  • Canada’s housing bubble: ‘Sliding down the slippery slope of hope’,Phillip Colmar

    Canada’s housing bubble: ‘Sliding down the slippery slope of hope’

    Phillip Colmar is managing partner and global strategist at MRB Partners.Canada is facing a massive housing bubble after more than two decades of cheap money and lax lending standards. And with a widespread affordability crisis, the country is now at an escalating risk of a housing bust. Many Canadi

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  • Black-clad house on a hardscrabble street,Dave LeBlanc

    Black-clad house on a hardscrabble street

    The year is 1985, and two young men are working in “production housing” at separate sites in what is now called the 905 region. A much older site supervisor decided it might be nice if the two met.“I looked like I was 12,” Brad Netkin, who, today, heads up Stamp Architecture, says with a laugh “and

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