18 h. ago Toronto seeing most new home listings in Canada but hardly anyone is buying

Predictions that Toronto's housing market would see a triumphant return of the enthusiasm and heat it's historically known for have fallen flat thus far, with sales continuing to dwindle far below hopes and expectations, and new listings continuing to pour onto the market.Nearly 20,000 homes are now up for sale within the GTA, per the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB)'s numbers for January, marking a worrying 48.6 per cent uptick in new listings and 70.2 per cent increase in active listings compared to this time last year.The number of sales transactions, meanwhile, has fallen 7.9 per cent over the same time frame, disheartening realtors and sellers who were expecting a bounceback after an abysmal 2024.RBC economists really put these numbers into perspective in a new special housing report that this month compared how the real estate scenes in major cities across Canada are faring.One graph shows Toronto to have the third-biggest year-over...

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25 h. ago FT Portfolios Canada Co. Announces Cash Distributions for Its Exchange Traded Funds

TSX: FUD, FSL & ETP Cboe CA: FJFB & SDVD TORONTO, Feb. 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FT Portfolios Canada Co. (“First Trust Canada”) is pleased to announce cash distributions for its Exchange Traded Funds (“First Trust ETFs”) listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and Cboe Canada for the month ending February 28, 2025 The […]

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26 h. ago Canada Buy Now Pay Later Business Databook 2025: A $6.69 Billion Market by 2030 – 75+ KPIs on BNPL Market Size, End

DUBLIN — The “Canada Buy Now Pay Later Business and Investment Opportunities Databook – 75+ KPIs on BNPL Market Size, End-Use Sectors, Market Share, Product Analysis, Business Model, Demographics – Q1 2025 Update” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The BNPL payment market in Canada is expected to grow by 12.0% on annual basis […]

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66 h. ago GameStop CEO comments on Canada's 'wokeness and DEI' after decision to sell stores

The CEO of GameStop has made a particularly baffling and cringeworthy statement regarding his company's planned sale of its operations in Canada and France.On X, Ryan Cohen posted that "high taxes, liberalism, socialism, progressivism, wokeness and DEI" are included "at no additional cost" to anyone buying either GameStop Canada or Micromania France.This kind of comment is hardly a surprise coming from Cohen, whose past comments include baselessly claiming Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election in 2020, which is especially embarrassing considering Cohen is actually Canadian, originally hailing from Montreal.Email M&A@gamestop.com if you’re interested in buying GameStop Canada or Micromania France. High taxes, Liberalism, Socialism, Progressivism, Wokeness and DEI included at no additional cost if you buy today!— Ryan Cohen (@ryancohen) February 18, 2025While GameStop has formally only attributed the potential sales of its C...

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69 h. ago Ontario city is second worst for violent crime in Canada and Toronto is way down the list

International headlines about Toronto's car theft issue and rising rates of crime in general may give the impression that the city, being Canada's biggest, is the country's hotspot for serious offences.But, at least when it comes to violent crime, a new study actually puts Toronto quite far down the list of the worst places in Canada, coming behind 23 other cities and also the national average for select metropolitan areas.The study, from the Fraser Institute, compared crime trends across cities and provinces, but also in Canada versus the U.S. It analyzed locales with 100,000 or more people, looking mostly at StatCan data from between 2019 and 2022 and using the metric of average incidents per 100,000 residents annually.The findings were somewhat surprising.Out of the Great White North's five most major cities, Calgary had the worst stats, coming in 11th out of 36 places ranked. Vancouver was somewhat better, in 16th when ...

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9 d. ago Letters, Feb. 13, 2025: ‘I have been berated for my insistence of buying Canadian’

Buy Canada For more than 50 years, I have been berated, called names, and lost friends for my insistence of buying Canadian. Did you buy a foreign car in the 1970s or ’80s? How about clothing from Asia? A vacuum cleaner? Tools, a lawnmower? Ever check the tags for product import? Starting in the very […]

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