Category: Northern BC

BRITISH COLUMBIA – The Province of BC is now offering standardized designs for people building small-scale, multi-unit housing to enable time and cost savings. Most of the 10 designs are based on “building blocks” that can...

BRITISH COLUMBIA – Despite recent government attempts to address BC’s ongoing housing crisis, a new economic report from the BC Real Estate Association (BCREA) indicates that even the current, elevated pace of...

Written By David Williams BRITISH COLUMBIA –British Columbians are worried about the rising cost of living, and rightly so. For example, in a May 24-30 poll of 1,203 British Columbians by Angus Reid, 66% of respondents cited...

OTTAWA – The Bank of Canada today reduced its target for the overnight rate to 4¼%, with the Bank Rate at 4½% and the deposit rate at 4¼%. The Bank is continuing its policy of balance sheet normalization. The global...

BRITISH COLUMBIA –  The British Columbia government’s new student “assessments” in high schools are much less valuable and useful than the previous exams in measuring student and school performance, finds a new study...