WEEK OF MARCH 25 2024 NEWSREEL WITH VANESSA TOPPLE
While the immigration minister is announcing new immigration caps – no one is paying attention to what the finance minister is doing. We tell you what she’s up to.
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As more stories about the housing crisis, housing affordability and every other doom and gloom article is published, we unfortunately will be hearing more and more about rent control. This week we debunk the first of many to come.
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According to CMHC, in order to achieve housing affordability Canada will need to build 5.8 million homes by 2030. A new Task Force Blueprint Report makes 140 recommendations to achieve the goal.
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Headlines this week are a hodgepodge of stories with one underlying theme – past government policies have created the housing crisis of today and the policies now being enacted are furthering issues both short and long term.
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This week, headlines take us out west, specifically British Columbia where once again more money was announced by the NDP government under the program, BC Builds, to tackle the housing crisis and this time, the federal government was on hand to kick in an additional 2 billion.
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This week another advocacy group dominates the headlines with another excuse for the housing crisis – which of course misses the mark.
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This week the federal government announced it was adding millions of dollars to the Canada Housing Benefit, which provides rental support to low-income Canadians.
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This week’s headlines are all about CMHC’s annual housing report which we cover, but we also go over the federal government’s temporary cap on international study visas. The good, the bad and the ugly for both.
read moreWEEK OF JANUARY 29 2024 NEWSREEL WITH VANESSA TOPPLE
Headlines this week focused on the government student visa cap, which we’ll touch on in a future show – but what wasn’t prominent in the headlines but should have been are the city of Hamilton passing a new bylaw preventing so-called renovictions.
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Sean Fraser, Canada’s Housing Minister delivered a message last week, telling Canadian cities that they need to relax their zoning policies if they want any federal government funds for new home construction.
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