67 h. ago The Ontario Real Estate Association Announces New 2025 President and Board of Directors

TORONTO, March 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) has announced that Belleville-based REALTOR®, Cathy Polan, has assumed the role of President of OREA. The announcement follows the Association’s Annual General Meeting on March 27, 2025. In this capacity, Ms. Polan will be representing Ontario’s nearly 100,000 REALTORS®, ensuring they have […]

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1 week ago Chris Miller, Former Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Appointed by President Trump, Joins the Draganfly Board of Directors

Tampa, Florida, March 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Draganfly Inc, (NASDAQ: DPRO) (CSE: DPRO) (FSE: 3U8A) (“Draganfly” or the “Company”), an award-winning, industry-leading drone solutions and systems developer, is proud to announce that Christopher C. Miller, former Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense under President Donald Trump, has joined the Company’s Board of Directors. Miller, a […]

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1 week ago Tariff uncertainty is affecting Canadian real estate and Ontario is hardest hit

While spring is typically the busiest time of the year to buy a home as more properties become available and competition increases, the housing market this season appears to be in a bit of a decline in Canada —and especially in Ontario — amid the ongoing trade war with the United States. According to a new report from the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), home sales in the country fell sharply from January to February, as many prospective home buyers chose to remain on the sidelines due to the threat of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs. Sales activity recorded over Canadian MLS Systems dropped 9.8 per cent month over month in February, marking the lowest level for home sales since November 2023, and the largest month-over-month decline in activity since May 2022. "The moment tariffs were first announced on January 20, a gap opened between home sales recorded this year and last. This trend continued to widen throughout February, leadin...

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2 w. ago Garden Centres Canada Retail Summit 2025 Set to Bloom in Winnipeg, Manitoba

A Must-Attend Event for Garden Centre Professionals Milton, Ontario, March 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Canadian Nursery Landscape Association (CNLA) is thrilled to announce the Garden Centres Canada Summit 2025, which will take place from July 6 to July 9, 2025, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This premier event will bring together industry leaders, garden centre […]

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2 w. ago Zenbase Partners with Cogir Real Estate to Empower Ontario Residents with Credit

CALGARY, Alberta — Cogir Real Estate (Multi Residential Ontario division), a leading property management company, has partnered with Zenbase, a financial technology company specializing in rent payment solutions, to offer Ontario residents powerful tools to build credit and manage rent payments more flexibly. Through this partnership, Cogir residents will now have access to Zenbase’s CreditBuilder […]

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2 w. ago These identical house designs could soon appear all over Ontario

After more than a year of planning and consultation, the Government of Canada has released today the final details of its Housing Design Catalogue — dozens of standardized templates to help achieve housing affordability for low-density infill developments.In preparation for the full rollout of the catalogue, the federal government is providing final renderings, floor plan layouts, and key building design details to provide builders with a head start to consider using these templates and begin planning.The intention is to reduce design and construction costs and simplify and accelerate housing approvals and construction for builders who choose to use these templates. As well, these templates help estimate construction costs."These standardized designs will help smaller homebuilders cut through the complexity, speeding up the time between concept and construction and lowering costs of building," said Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, the federal minister of housing, infrastruct...

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3 w. ago U.S. tariffs could have devastating effects on real estate in Ontario

Even if you want to try and avert your gaze from the tariff talk that is dominating headlines this week, it is hard to ignore the reality of how ruinous the tolls will likely prove to be for Canada.Despite our various leaders' attempts to mimic Donald Trump's bombastic patriotism (including in the form of retaliatory levies), the damage to the Great White North's economy is already being felt. While sectors like the auto industry are among those hit hardest, there are also set to be huge impacts to the real estate market, among others.As Ontario Premier Doug Ford said during the initial countdown to tariffs last month, "the coming days and weeks will be incredibly difficult. Trump's tariffs are going to devastate our economy and will put up to 450,000 jobs at risk from every sector in every region. No one will be immune, everyone will feel the impact."Now that a 25 per cent tax has been added to virtually all goods Canada sends into the U.S. (...

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