Surprised it has not been mentioned yet, but mbasic.facebook.com would solve the issue in both articles. I don't even have a facebook account and I'm constantly referring people to the slimmer version. I guess they must not advertise it.
I didn't say similar things didn't exist in Canada, I said "Jim Crow" didn't exist in Canada because that was the subject of the comment I was replying to. Thanks for the scolding though.
Six months ago people knew this was coming. If they bought at that time they were just ignoring the writing on the wall because they wanted to play real estate casino. No sympathy for sad house flippers, sorry!
Keep in mind if you get capital gains you pay tax twice to both governments. You make it sound like it is a huge deal but factor in the increased accounting costs and in most cases the advantage isn't that great at all.
No they mean increase. Rents are high and it is causing problems for retail workers who have to commute 2h to get to work because of living costs in the city.
One of the proposals was to look at energy use. Which is sorta absurd for "green" Vancouver to encourage cheats to waste energy on things to make the empty home look active. Not sure if that is what actually got implemented though.
That is... Weird. I'm a Canadian who does business in US (but I do not reside or physically work there). I have always understood TN as the way to go. I have relatives on L-1 and P-1 visas and I always give the L-1 guy a hard time because the path to become a citizen is beholden to his (now bankrupt) employer. Never even considered that any of us would qualify for H1B. I suspect it is "lazy" legal departments who just file Canadians with all of their international people.