Over the past five years, prices for detached properties in Vancouver have surged.RAFAL GERSZAK
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Cool the whole housing market, or just Vancouver and Toronto?
Some interesting ideas are floated in this blog post, including one that would require people in overheated markets to pay a larger downpayment.
Targeted by the taxman
The Canada Revenue Agency is going after income from freelancers, contractors, waiters and other professions where income sometimes goes unreported.
The bull market turns five
A timely comparison of today's fast-rising stock market with conditions back in 2000, when the tech bubble popped.
What's wrong with the middle class
Maclean's presents seven charts that document the economic problems the middle class has had in recent years.
More money
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