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Purchasing a place to live should be about obtaining a home, not about building wealth. The assumption that home ownership is a get...

Although I recall this chart from Ottawa citizen that shows the wealthy did the best under Chretien/Martin, whereas Harper improved the...

He ensured that the number of homes needed due to immigration match the number built by the private sector.

From this morning: (The PM discusses "Forward Guidance")

Agreed.... So the 67% of households owning their home are wealthy? Or are you disputing the fact that homeowners are more likely to...

Report on my Line 6 ride today after 7pm: - Acceleration and braking were much more aggresive than a month ago, maybe even more so than...

I am confused, are you against the private ownership of assets in general? Or do you think $70k is enough to retire on? (see my previous...

Related to this discussion: I'll add that the key is profit incentive, if you have state-run things that have no incentive to profit...

There aren't many shining examples of SOEs or nationalization in Canadian history. You'd have to look to other countries.

Nah more like a group of people who get together on Sunday mornings to play street hockey at an old abandoned parking lot, complaining...

Both CN and CPKC are much different corporations than they were back in CN's Crown Corp days. They are both now multi-national...

Speaking to how badly they were managing CN compared to private CP back in the day. Taking 1 billion out of 2 billion in stock buybacks...

The greatest social damage is to prevent people from accumulating any wealth, as wide swaths of the population are priced out of home...

Not the most detailed picture, but some of the track work taking place this weekend as seen from the pedestrian bridge in Liberty Village.

I can certainly imagine a fantasy scenario where someone with enough capital to buy controlling interest could compel CN shareholders to...