Though a ‘difficult thing to track,’ Sotheby Canada president and CEO Don Kottick says the luxury house market is better than it appears as more sales turn to private sellers rather than the MLS system.
Ottawa’s latest immigration program to poach foreign tech workers in the U.S. closed Monday night, less than 48 hours after it opened for applications.
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow framed the additional funding as a “short-term stop gap” and cautioned it’s not enough to meet the needs of refugees and asylum seekers.
Immigration Minister Sean Fraser announced Tuesday a one-time injection of $212 million into the Interim Housing Assistance Program, including $97 million for the city to house asylum seekers.