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Real Estate · Storeys Real Estate

Insider: Budget 2026 Opens Up Financing For Small Rental Builders

A developer who shelved a small rental project over financing has a reason to price it again. Budget 2026 gives newly built triplexes and fourplexes access to insured loans of up to 90% of completed value. It also lets private insurers cover buildings with five to 50 units.Budget 2026, tabled November 5, pairs those c…

Intelligence · C.D. Howe Institute

The Trade War Will Continue, Could Get Worse

From: Lawrence Herman To: Trade observers Date: November 9, 2026 Re: The Trade War Will Continue, Could Get Worse Let’s not get carried away and think Donald Trump’s stunning rebuke in the US mid-terms will result in some dramatic change his team’s anti-Canadian policies or lessen Trump’s aggressive trade war against…

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Intelligence · C.D. Howe Institute

Federal Spending Keeps Drifting Upward in Budget 2026

Last week’s federal budget continues the upward drift in federal spending, a trend the C.D. Howe Institute consistently documents. Since 2021, each successive fall update (since 2025, budgets have been released in the fall and updates in the spring) has projected higher total expenses than the one before it. The 2021…

Entertainment · Indie88 Toronto Music

Win tickets to Bon Jovi

Play The Morning Show's 30 Second Song Challenge at 7:30am and 8:30am every weekday morning! Contestants will have 30 seconds to correctly identify 5 ...

Entertainment · Indie88 Toronto Music

Win tickets to Fall Out Boy

Indie88 welcomes Fall Out Boy - Twilight of the Punks North American Tour to Rogers Stadium on July 22nd, 2027! Tickets go on-sale Thursday, November ...

Entertainment · Indie88 Toronto Music

Win tickets to Kings of Leon

Indie88 welcomes Kings of Leon: World Tour 2027 to RBC Amphitheatre on June 2nd, 2027 with special guests Band of Horses! Tickets go on-sale Friday, N...

Entertainment · Indie88 Toronto Music

Win tickets to Nick Cave

Indie88 welcomes Nick Cave - An Evening of Talk & Music to Massey Hall on April 29th & 30th, 2027! Tickets go on-sale on Friday, November 13th...

Entertainment · Indie88 Toronto Music

Win tickets to Ricky Gervais

Indie88 welcomes Ricky Gervais: Legend to Scotiabank Arena on August 14th, 2027! Tickets go on-sale Friday, November 13th at 10am here! Listen to Indi...

Real Estate · Better Dwelling

Canada To Lift Ban On Foreign Buyers of New Homes For “Affordability”

Canada has one weird trick to help with housing affordability - sell the new homes you can’t afford to foreign buyers. That’s not a mistake; it’s the pitch in Canada’s Budget 2026, which will extend the foreign buyer ban until 2029. However, this time they plan to exempt foreign buyers to clear the stagnating inventor…

Intelligence · IRPP Policy Options

Budget 2026 offers help, but won’t reach everyone who needs it

(Version française disponible ici.) Many of the new measures in the federal budget focus on affordability. This makes sense given that it remains a top priority for most Canadians. The government focuses its support at the lower end of the income spectrum, aiming to lift more Canadians out of poverty. It also makes a…