Facebook Hired Temporary Foreign Software Engineers in Vancouver

http://thetyee.ca/News/2015/03/12/Facebook-Hired-Foreign-Workers/

Canada Doesn’t Know What 154,000 Foreign Workers Actually Do

http://thetyee.ca/News/2015/03/13/What-Foreign-Workers-Do/

Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada:A look at regions and occupational skill

http://www.pbo-dpb.g

Richmond Chinese-language only sign controversy, a sign of cultural tension

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/richmond-chinese-language-only-sign-controversy-a-sign-of-cultural-tension-1.2991836

@Brian Ripley – You mean those old furnitures that no one under 35 even know what is called or what it is supposed to be used for??

If people want cheap furnitures, IKEA and independent furniture stores where if you pay cash they don’t charge you tax & credit card fees are the place to go for cheap furniture.

But realistically, if you just paid $500K for a condo, or $2M for a house, is spending another 5% on furniture going to kill you?

If people here want cheap house then you should all support pro-developer policy that will cause them to build, build, build, build. The more supply there is, the cheaper things will be. Cutting out all the development charges that really does not aside from fattening up city beaucratic waste and parasites would help you. Vancouver with its “green/eco” policy probably adds $50-$100/sq ft in additional construction cost.

Anyone thinks writing to the mayor will get any results then I got a bridge to Victoria to sell to you right now for a low price of $1M cash!

Geez…if you want anything done then you have to buy the politicians. That means giving them more money than the developers can ever give them. If you start donating $1M or $2M or $5M to Vision election funds then you will be surprised how quickly Gregor will start having personal one on one meetings to hear your concerns and having 6 months action plans to start implementing what you want to do.

take it from me ant patriotz, nothing can be done about foreign ownership. nor should anything be done. it’s a red hearing. it’s all the CMHC and Conservative party’s fault. just vote liberal and it will all be ok.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sfu-prof-tim-takaro-called-by-rcmp-after-taking-photos-near-kinder-morgan-site-1.2993421

Re; #18 The Libs started this back in the early 00’s and the Cons kept it going. There’s no party that wants home prices to go down.

Just look at this Liberal MP asking the Prime Minister to use the CMHC ‘protect’ the Calgary housing market from falling prices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vJTA2_gVag

@Corrupt in Canada – He’s lucky RCMP only called him….

If Cons get their way, he would probably be arrested by CSIS as a potential terrorist and locked away without any trial/legal due process. His family probably can’t even find out if he’s actually locked up somewhere or visit him since that would be classified as national security info.

These anti-terror laws will likely be used and abused by multi-national/big corp interests than actually fighting terrorism.

@#17. It has more to do with home owners than developers. 70% of Canadians own a home. 65% of Metro Vancouverites own a home. They DO NOT want home prices to fall.

If the 65% think its the CMHC, then they want the CMHC to keep subsidizing home ownership.
If the 65% think it’s low interest rates, then they want interest rates to stay rock bottom.
If the 65% think its foreign ownership, then they want the floodgates to open.

If you want anything done then become a home owner. All the politicians will do whatever they can to keep your asset afloat.

Case in point. Here’s Tim Louis from COPE (the guy with the Che Guevera t-shirt) and his comments on home prices;

“Would you support policies that would lead to a drop in real estate values?

People who already own homes would be unfairly hurt by a policy that would lead to a drop in real-estate values. If the current homeowner has taken out a mortgage for say 90% of the worth of their home, and values then drop by 10%, the homeowner has lost 100% of her or his equity.”

https://vreaa.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/policies-on-housing-4-tim-louis-cope-city-council-candidate/

No one is on our side.

Its true that its practically impossible to find a politician that would do anything to make home prices fall, every level of government tends to do what it can to prevent that outcome.

And yet house prices have fallen throughout history here and elsewhere, usually when prices got too high and there was an economic shift.

When they do fall they tend to go back up after a while – the 30 years or so it took Vancouver prices to reach their inflation adjusted peak was an unusually long time. All you really have to do is avoid being one of the foreclosures until the next bubble comes along, whether thats in your lifetime or the next generation.

http://business.financialpost.com/2015/02/19/rcmp-charges-snc-lavalin-with-fraud-and-corruption-linked-to-libyan-projects/