Just Say It
“We do not have a bubble,” F said one night this week. “I think if we had failed to take…
Read ArticleCommon Denominator
The lowest interest rates since ever have been with us for about four years now. Instead of using cheap money…
Read ArticleToo Good To Be True
The teller rolled her eyes when she saw me looking at it. “I’d like to meet the idiot who dreamed…
Read ArticleDuty of Care
Poor RBC. Weeks ago the nation’s biggest, dumbest bank pulled a PR boner over a few dozen foreign IT workers. By…
Read ArticleVictoria’s Secret
The long weekend marks the beginning of bug, infection, drowning and melanoma season, which is why we celebrate it. But…
Read ArticleStar 3, Truth 0
The descent into media hell continues. Not long ago the nation’s biggest paper, the Toronto Star, announced a 65% plunge…
Read ArticleSoft Landing, Part Deux
Two months ago a work crew screwed cement board onto the front of a mid-town Toronto semi, then glued face…
Read ArticleSoft Landing
If I wasn’t such a rube, I’d swear there was a conspiracy. Break out the tin foil. What a coincidence. The…
Read ArticleWhy Life Isn’t Fair
I have a little test for you. Apply for a mortgage on these terms. You have enough cash on hand in…
Read ArticleThe Man Who Loved Short
Alicia has a problem. She finds me uncle-ly. “Hi Uncle Garth – Yes that’s what my husband and I think of…
Read ArticleInvesting with James
Breaking news: Remember what I told you last week, that all mortgages of more than 25 years would be banned in…
Read ArticleAnticipation
Shopping in the Milton Wal-Mart and get an urge for 100% financing? Call Shak. Now. (Thanks to Nick Aziz) “After a long…
Read ArticleBusting The Banks
Remember when F murdered the 30-year mortgage last July? Well, it didn’t exactly happen the way the elfin deity had…
Read ArticleProtection
You know the market’s in trouble when houses get the same treatment as flat screen TVs. But this is exactly…
Read ArticleThe Sure Thing
Two Thursdays ago Tom strode out of the yard for the last time, went home and mounted his off-white hard…
Read ArticleNot Again
‘Why would you want to do that?’ I asked. Henry wasn’t expecting a question. He’d called my cell phone late…
Read ArticleHicks
We stood is a semi-circle watching the dog. Seemed like a reasonable thing to do on a day when the…
Read ArticleThe Gospel Of Buy
Gregg says he’s been arguing with a real estate agent friend in Vancouver, “who is absolutely convinced that residential real…
Read ArticleStar 2, Truth 0
“Christina Cleveland was feeling overwhelmed by the process of buying her first home.” So began a feature story in the Toronto…
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