@elvince: 66
http://www.bnn.ca/News/2015/11/12/CMHC-is-walking-a-tight-rope-on-mortgage-
insurance-Author.aspx

CMHC worry?

CMHC president and chief executive officer Evan Siddall called the release of the stress test a “next step in our transparency” – openly acknowledging the disproportionate risk exposure he says the CMHC is saddle with.

“These losses are [to be] fully borne by us, with no losses taken by the banks and lenders that originated the loans,” said Siddall in a behind-closed doors speech to a Bay Street audience on Tuesday.

@59

The rich (Chinese) are also scurrying to shift money offshore, likely fearing they could become targets of President Xi Jinping’s anti-graft campaign.

What a bunch of lowlifes with strong belief in their country, society and future. Very nice people that everyone would wish as neighbors, friends and partners.

@Madashell: I wouldn’t wanna be the 4 of any set in that deck…

Funny how extremists like ISIS didn’t exist before US & France & co decided to bring democracy to all the secular gov’ts in ME. You reap what you sow and Western gov’ts are finding that out.

When everything you know, include your loved ones, get destroy or even worse blown to pieces by drone & air attacks, is it any surprising hate & anger takes hold?

How many innocent civilians & kids die in Syria every day? Probably more than 100 a day. How many lives are permanently ruined thanks to ISIS and other “moderate” opposition groups in Syria?

As for French airstrikes? Probably hurts civilians far more than ISIS, and generating more recruits for ISIS.

@Crikey

Good for you for being intolerant of the Islamic faith.

The rich (Chinese) are also scurrying to shift money offshore, likely fearing they could become targets of President Xi Jinping’s anti-graft campaign.

They may get shivers when they see playing cards featuring the portraits of officials caught in Xi’s dragnet. A former Japanese government official who recently returned from China had one of the decks on hand; the two joker cards were adorned with pictures of the biggest “tigers” caught, Zhou Yongkang and Bo Xilai. To some, the fact that such cards are circulating might seem like a bad omen.

http://atimes.com/2015/11/china-capital-flight-gives-regulators-a-run-for-their-money/

Meanwhile…Kristy welcome all HAMs to launder through real estates with open arms.

#54 said ” I have lived in the Middle East as a Christian and have experienced first hand the humanitarian efforts of the Islam faith. ” Oh, that makes it all good then? No, that’s a terrible argument! Some humanitarian efforts don’t negate the extremism prevelent among Islam’s followers. For example, it is said that among Lebanese terrorists there is a lot of charity too. And I don’t give a shiat. Yes, extremism is prevelent among Christianity too, but the magnitude is miniscule compared to the prevelence of extremist Islamists. Ive never heard of a place where a Christian can be expected to be killed for choosing to stop being a Christian, for example. All religions have problems, but obviously Islam has a much bigger problem than the others — and Muslims have to address it en masses but AREN’T doing… Read more »

Home prices in Vancouver, Toronto surge higher despite growing worries

http://globalnews.ca/news/2341367/home-prices-in-vancouver-toronto-surge-higher-despite-growing-worries/

I hope some of you went to vigil at the Art Gallery on Sat night. I did. 500 people in total. Native band played. Very moving.

BTW here are some other vigils around the world. You will pleasantly surprised at some. Click on the video box on the BBC site

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34824358

Whistler or bust:

“The problem with Islam in general is it does not and cannot co-exist peacefully with other religions and more importantly humanism”

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

I have lived in the Middle East as a Christian and have experienced first hand the humanitarian efforts of the Islam faith. They give land and resources to Christian churches and feed the poor (of any faith) regularly. All of the Muslim people I worked with only ever want peace.

When was the last time you visited or lived in an Islamic country ?

It’s no coincidence btw that the most moderate Islamic countries. ; Indonesia , Malaysia , turkey ( where Trudeau is being mobbed for selfies) have no oil and were left alone

I think some of you need a history lesson and if you have five minutes read this brief synopsis. Islam was not always this backward . During the Middle Ages in Europe when science was suffocated by the church , the Islamic world was the centre of free learning ; al-gebra , the decimal system and the rotation of the planets around the sun well before Copernicus . All these came from Islamic universities. Europe was counting in a crazy system of 12s. SO what went wrong ? Lots and the west is partly to blame. Constant interference to gain access to oil and to fight Russia The British installed the Saudi royal family who are Wahhabi ( fundamentalist Sunni sect) the US has propped them up while they crush their own peoples rights and spend money on madrasahs teaching… Read more »

@51

Premier CC mostly live and work in China lately.

Today, Poland had its biggest anti-immigration rally in history.

One of Frances’ main political parties want to shut down all mosques in the country.

Chaos because RE/business interests want to keep importing people for ponzi schemes.

Lower mainland will be a mess in 20 years. Unrecognizable.

Ulsterman, if the monthly rent cost about the same as a mortgage including principal then obviously houses were heavily under-priced back then.