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Best Places to Live: Canada’s Top 10 Cities (2013)
May 8, 2013 – 3:21 pm | Comments Off on Best Places to Live: Canada’s Top 10 Cities (2013)
Best Places to Live: Canada’s Top 10 Cities (2013)

Every year, Moneysense rates Canada’s Best Places to Live, weighing factors as diverse as weather, incomes and taxes, job prospects, access to health care, home affordability, crime rates, and overall lifestyle, including the percentage of …

The 10 Cheapest Cities to Buy a Home in Canada
December 6, 2012 – 8:02 am | Comments Off on The 10 Cheapest Cities to Buy a Home in Canada
The 10 Cheapest Cities to Buy a Home in Canada

If you want to buy a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house, the cheapest city in Canada is Windsor, Ontario, where your “dream home” will cost an average of $170,991.

But if you’d rather settle in Vancouver, …

Canada Real Estate: The Cost of Buying a Home
November 19, 2012 – 5:43 am | One Comment
Canada Real Estate: The Cost of Buying a Home

How much does it cost to buy a home in Canada? And where are the cheapest cities for housing?

The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) recently released their fourth quarter 2012 report on real …

Best Places to Live: Canada’s Top 10 Cities (2012)
July 23, 2012 – 7:15 pm | One Comment
Best Places to Live: Canada’s Top 10 Cities (2012)

Where are the best places to live in Canada?

The MoneySense 2012 Best Places to Live survey rated 190 Canadian communities with at least 10,000 residents, comparing 22 different factors such as weather, incomes and …

Nova Scotia to double number of immigrants by 2020
April 29, 2011 – 2:19 pm | Comments Off on Nova Scotia to double number of immigrants by 2020
Nova Scotia to double number of immigrants by 2020

Thinking about moving to Nova Scotia?

Nova Scotia announced a new immigration strategy that aims to double the number of immigrants entering the province each year by 2020.

The new strategy, which the provincial government …