Centre Plan: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Duncan Williams, President & CEO Construction Association of Nova Scotia I am asked every day for our perspective on issues of public policy, regulation and legislation. To that end, we have had many conversations as an...

Student Housing In Canada Is Being Ignored, And It Might Be Why You Can’t Afford Rent There are more than 400,000 international students in Canada, and no one is building housing for them. In the endless debate over Canada’s high house prices and rising rents, foreign...

'It's like whack-a-mole': How cities are grappling with unsafe rooming houses Finding solutions to illegal rooming houses and the dangers they pose to the people who live in them is a job that often falls to municipalities, and it is forcing some city councillors to...

HRM fire code violations number in the thousands, but could be much larger Regulations around what buildings can be inspected are one reason why numbers are lower than they could be Every time Natasha Prest walks through a building, she holds her breath as she scans...

RioCan REIT (REI-UN-T) is expanding its existing partnerships with Killam Apartment REIT and Boardwalk REIT to facilitate multi-residential development opportunities at two of its shopping centres in Ottawa and Mississauga... Read More...

Lawsuit filed by Onni Property Management asks for more than $75K in damages from Vancouver tenants Rees Cameron billed his Halloween 2018 bash as "the most exclusive house party ever," featuring go-go dancers, a tarot card reader and a Michael Jackson impersonator....

‘I've certainly learned ... how easy it is for criminals to take advantage of laws,' says landlord Jason Selby They rolled up in a BMW and Audi. They presented a credit report with a high score. Their references checked out and they have two young children, so I...

Mike Savage: How Halifax’s dizzying growth can hurt some of our most vulnerable citizens Special to the Star Halifax It’s been almost two weeks since former hurricane Dorian made his unwelcome visit to the Halifax region, uprooting trees, cutting off power, limiting...

Halifax passes first half of Centre Plan despite developers’ concerns with affordable housing ‘tax’ HALIFAX—Council has passed the first half of a long-awaited set of land-use planning documents despite concerns from developers that the affordable-housing component...

Rent control among issues NDP will focus on in fall session The provincial NDP have revealed the main issues they are going to focus on in the upcoming session of the legislature, and one of the biggest is pursuing rent control. NDP leader Gary Burrill said people are...