Friday Free-for-all!
It’s Friday and that means it’s time for another end of the week news roundup and open topic discussion thread! Here are a few recent links to kick things off:
-Mayor: Downtown to rival New York, London and Paris
-Demographic comparison of 1981 and 2011 markets
-NDP support surges
-Petition in support of the UBC hospice
-TSX vs Real Estate graphs updated
-What’s next for Vancouver market, ask a realtor
-Downtown Vancouver rental scams on the rise
-Highest house price not the most important factor in sale
-One in five Canadians eyeing US housing market
-Transcripts of G&M report on immigration fraud
-Forestry poised for growth?
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So what are you seeing out there? Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have an excellent weekend!
May 2nd, 2011 at 3:26 am
@Patriotz
I was actually referring to the article where the BQ members were encouraging people to vote NDP rather than the other parties. I wasn't making anything up, but, without any reference to the article in my initial comment I see now how it could appear that way. Obviously no party is going to fully lend their support to another party because they all want your vote.
April 30th, 2011 at 11:51 pm
@Best place on meth: No better than Hitler. 6 million slaughtered Jews disagree.
Don't misinterpret. Jack coming under spotlight and informative to talk about what might crawl out.
French Canada love average guy. Average guy does average stuff like living with MIL and likes Hot Asian Massage. Cane reminds them of Lucien Bouchard.
April 30th, 2011 at 4:17 pm
@Bear Patrol:
Harper is a worthless piece of shit who advocated invading another nation which resulted in the deaths of 10's of thousands of people.
He's no better than Hitler and deserves to be either imprisoned or executed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8YwJC_nBgw
April 30th, 2011 at 3:14 pm
@Best place on meth: irrelevant because people want to keep politician honest. Old Tired Men running out of Viagra. If Jack had skeleton it would be out already but,
Report was Chow used Mom as signee to get subsidized housing that she and Teflon Jack used instead. When they were in Toronto council they were called out & had to move.
If this true it should be issue, or right wing thought story would backfire because too complicated. Sin Parlor was easy to digest and had shock value. But Jack slipprier now than when he was in parlor! LOL.
April 30th, 2011 at 2:26 pm
@Bear Patrol:
So irrelevant, Jack gets a massage, Jack gets low income housing, are you kidding me?
Harper demands Chretien takes Canada to war in Iraq is just a little bit more telling.
This is about invading a nation and killing tens of thousands of people for no good reason.
Harper belongs on the end of a rope.
April 30th, 2011 at 11:03 am
@squidly77: No charges no foul. Jack scamming social housing with wife in 90s is bigger story, along with DINKing their double Ottawa living allowance. Shows how incompetent right wing media muckrakers are. Too little too late for this round. Will all come out in coming year.
April 30th, 2011 at 9:50 am
The Jack Layton massage parlour story came out of Sun media out of Montreal. Beware folks this is the new ultra-right wing, ultra-zionist, union-bashing media outfit, now that they Canwest is in tatters.
They will no doubt use the same smear tactics well know to Canwest readers and viewers.
April 30th, 2011 at 8:45 am
@to be or not to be:
Chinese will vote for any party frienly to China.
April 30th, 2011 at 6:14 am
Welcome back paulb. You and your contribution to this blog have been missed.
April 30th, 2011 at 12:57 am
This morning I made decesion to give my vote to Jack. i am fed up of two main party fear mongering
April 30th, 2011 at 12:46 am
"Report says Calgary housing market a ‘bust’
Average prices declined from peak"
Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Report+says…
Oh please don't tell this is so.
Maybe it's because all those oil rich Albertans are buying up Kelowna…..hahahahaha
April 29th, 2011 at 11:50 pm
@paulb :
Is that Inventory considered high, or normal for this time of year?
April 29th, 2011 at 11:33 pm
Hey Bear Patrol relax, I was hoping fot jumping Jack Flash, he did it, not me. What if it were Harper that got caught with a Prostitute? Geez you sound like a Liberal, defend the Perp and not the victim. I guess it was the Prosis fault EH!
April 29th, 2011 at 10:57 pm
@specuskeptic:
Inventory is at 15,225
April 29th, 2011 at 9:38 pm
@squidly77: Uh oh running out of ammo to throw.
Bizarro world where all the mud won't stick.
Dipper platform lies but voters know.
Every other platform is lie too.
All that's left is leader and his smell.
Other leaders smell of mold and dust.
Bear Patrol voting for Jack the Bear.
April 29th, 2011 at 7:11 pm
@Anonymous:
You really think that all of the Rich Asians carry around sacks of cash which they use to buy everything? Even the realtors don't claim that.
If money they spend is coming out of bank accounts you have an audit trail. The Feds have the power to deem the money as income if they want to.
April 29th, 2011 at 6:29 pm
Hey PaulB – any chance we can get some inventory #s? That would be wonderful. Thanks in advance, hugs and kisses.
April 29th, 2011 at 5:35 pm
Another month of falling real estate prices here in Australia. 0.2% fall in March, a revised 0.5% fall in February, and a 2.1% decline for the quarter ending in March. This is the biggest fall since RP Data started their index in 1999.
Here are the 12 month median price movements ending March:
Sydney 2.1%
Melbourne 1.0%
Adelaide 0.0%
Perth -6.4%
Brisbane -6.8%
Remember a couple of months ago when the Globe ran a story claiming Melbourne's prices were going up 20% a year?
It's hilarious watching the property cheerleaders trying to spin the stats. The chief economist of NAB (one of the 4 big banks here) says "the market is essenatially going sideways." I can guarantee you if prices were increasing over 2% a quarter these whores would be talking about how robust the market was. Maybe that economist studied statistics with Dave.
Even better is the research director at RP Data who has found the silver lining – residential property owners are now realising robust increases in rental yields! Great news everyone – your property is going take a 40% haircut, but at least it will be yielding 8% gross then.
April 29th, 2011 at 2:52 pm
well, Jack Layton is at least better than the big nose.
April 29th, 2011 at 2:46 pm
I think Quebecers abandoning the Bloc for the NDP is a re-balancing act as Pauline Marois has just come out of the leadership convention with a 93% approval rating. It looks as though le Parti Quebecois stands a very good chance of taking the next provincial election and it doesn't strike me as representative of the Federalist/Separatist dichotomy that exists throughout Quebec to have nationalist parties at both the Federal and Provincial levels. This is one reason why I think they've dropped le Bloc like a hot potato. That and because Duceppe's actions, or lack thereof, indicates to everyone that he's done.
Also, the overreaction of Anglo Canada to Layton is no doubt spurring on more and more support amongst all kinds of Quebecers, not just separatists. If only these idiots in Ottawa had nimble strategists instead of being A-list Blockheads who feed Quebecers need to see themselves as superior to les blokes to the west of them. After all these years, it's still Upper vs Lower Canada.
April 29th, 2011 at 2:20 pm
Masterbate him.
April 29th, 2011 at 2:19 pm
To Masrebate him no less.
April 29th, 2011 at 2:18 pm
Patrick Muttart – Harper's right hand according to reports. Can you believe this shit? He doesn't deserve a majority!
April 29th, 2011 at 2:17 pm
TORONTO – Jack Layton was found laying naked on a bed by Toronto Police at a suspected Chinatown bawdy house in 1996, a retired Toronto police officer told the Toronto Sun.
He calls it a smear job, I say he used a Chinese mainland prostitute.
April 29th, 2011 at 2:17 pm
@paulb.:
Nice to have you back Paulb. Maybe the start of more double-digit sales days.
April 29th, 2011 at 2:14 pm
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/04/29/layton-found…
April 29th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
Extremely Rich Vancouver Homeowner
Bring lots of Vaseline or it's gonna hurt yah, there will be a lot of guys waiting for you,
Just hope you don't get a long term.
April 29th, 2011 at 12:51 pm
@paulb.: Yay!
April 29th, 2011 at 12:35 pm
The Bloc seems to be imploding. Good thing too IMVHO.
In fact the Bloc's policies are very close to the NDP's socially with the addition of a messianic fever to separate.
I hope the NDP make large enough inroads into the Bloc vote and this lunacy can be buried the same place that they buried the crazy notion of separating the Western US and Canadian States/Provinces into 'Cascadia'- remember that one??
April 29th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
I'm back and the numbers will be here daily! More info and stats will be coming soon and the dailys will always be posted here for the VCI Crew
List 230
Changed 100
Sold 90
5 day
List 1390
Changed 495
Sold 893
April 29th, 2011 at 12:06 pm
@patriotz: …If the government can bust English teachers working abroad for unreported income on the basis of bank transfers (and they have), I’m sure they can bust the big guys on the same basis…..
Ya, cause everybody knows that millionaires avoid taxes by keeping their money in a single, easily monitored account.
Have you renewed your subscription to ‘Gullible People’s Digest’?
April 29th, 2011 at 11:55 am
@patriotz:
I think any careful scrutiny and you'll discover that the guys dealing in large scale tax fraud will always find ways to shelter their money from countries, quite often in 100% legal ways. The small fry like the ones you mention are just too poor or stupid to do it 'right'.
April 29th, 2011 at 10:54 am
McLosin
Check out Larry's stats.
What did I tell you. Calm down man, bide your time. Its coming.
I told you I would look out for you.
xoxox
Romeo Jordan
April 29th, 2011 at 10:29 am
@jesse:
If the government can bust English teachers working abroad for unreported income on the basis of bank transfers (and they have), I'm sure they can bust the big guys on the same basis.
This is the post-9/11 world after all. You can't do this kind of thing under the table any more.