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Vancouver In the 1950s was supposedly second only to Shanghai in the number of neon signs per capita in the city, according to the Vancouver Public Library.
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Daniel Coudreaut, the senior director of culinary innovation for McDonald’s USA, recently caused a blogosphere furor with a statement he made about his menu. 'I don’t see anything on the menu that’s unhealthy,' Coudreaut said.
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Mortgage wars at big banks helps drive B.C. home sales: Economist
The mortgage wars between big banks helped stoke British Columbia’s real estate markets to their busiest May since 2007, according to the B.C. Real Estate Association.
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B.C. realtors post busiest May since 2007
The mortgage competition between big banks helped stoke British Columbia’s real estate markets to their busiest May since 2007, according to the B.C. Real Estate Association. The province’s 13 real estate boards recorded 8,729 sales through the Multiple Listing Service, a 14-per-cent increase from the same month a year ago with big bumps in the key Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley markets influencing the provincial increase.
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CMHC to stop insuring mortgages on million-dollar homes, condo construction
OTTAWA - Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says it will no longer offer mortgage insurance for homes that cost $1 million or more, starting July 31, even if the buyer has made a deposit of 20 per cent or more.
Is the ‘racist’ label being abused in Vancouver’s housing debate?
An ethnic Chinese newspaper reporter is the latest to challenge the way Metro Vancouver real estate developers and their supporters have long used the “racist” label to muddy debates over the extraordinarily high cost of housing.
Barbara Yaffe: Brothers cashing in on real estate space race
Flex space. Multi-functional. Affordable. Those buzzwords describe Vancouver’s latest response to crazy housing prices. Developers increasingly are building compact condos, with units as small as a few hundred square feet. Obviously in this scenario space maximization becomes key.
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Lower Mainland real estate sales trend continues rise
Property sales across the Lower Mainland continued at a rising pace in May, extending a trend of strengthening demand that began in the earlier months of 2013.
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Don Cayo: Women still marginalized in Canadian boardrooms
The number of women serving on the boards that direct big Canadian public companies is inching up, but most private companies, co-operatives and Crown corporations still drag their feet when it comes to appointing women directors.
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UBC students create iPad app for team-based learning
University of B.C. students Bruce Li and Cole Spooner have created an app to turn classroom lectures into team-based interactive activities and testing
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