Recent content by YZT580

but an action that needs careful implementation. China and their ghost cities is a good example of government intervention failing to match need. I also remember miles of empty streets, curbs, and street lights in rural Florida that sat that way until they were no longer useable that were...

It is neighbourhoods that change. It isn't likely that Gerard and Coxwell will ever become a hotbed of rental activity but the homes near the CNE on the other hand... Area in Niagara we looked is approaching the 50% mark because the area is popular with tourists. There are no schools anymore...

I have heard the same percentages for summer homes on Lake Simcoe. Between Sutton and Orillia they say over half the cottages are now rentals. No neighbourhoods and no communities left

of course. Just as there was a market at one time for coal furnaces. The immigration community was an obvious market. With 500000 new bodies a year it was a guaranteed winner: they had to have a place to live. But the profit on a basic home is a lot smaller than the profit on the same home...

humbug. If that were the case, there wouldn't be a condo crisis in TO and VR. The market guessed wrong and the Jones's have filed for bankruptcy 'cause they couldn't make the payments. The market they thought was there evaporated with Trudeau's proposed changes to the capital gains act and...

never said they weren't but prices started to fall long before Trump and Carney's elections. When interest rates started going up large numbers of people no longer qualified for mortgages so they waited it out and started buying back in when things came down. But the type of home coming on the...

neither. Prices are down because there aren't buyers around who can afford the asking price. You can hang the depressing economy on the liberal party which is what has brought prices down but you can't praise Carney for doing anything right to fix it. I will add YET to that statement as there...

getting rid of ethanol would be wonderful. Just think of all the cropland that would go back to growing stuff you can eat and my outboard wouldn't keep gumming up.

so none of them were designed to meet the needs of an expanding population. What is the group of people then who have the capital reserve to design and construct housing that is suitable and who aren't already financially strapped by guessing wrong 10 years ago? All of those building permits...

following Toronto's lead. For those going after Ford, and he is not on my Christmas card list, there are thousands of building permits already issued in Toronto that aren't being acted upon. There are any number of buyers who are walking away from their deposits and condos sitting finished...

didn't stop them from spending millions to update her prior to her being towed to the scrapyard.

Once that is done they will sell it. Remember the Bonnie?

Speaking only of the JSS, would it be possible or even legal given the differences in certification, for a JSS to be fitted for but not equipped with weapons and then crewed by a civilian crew in the same fashion as the Asterix is until such time as recruiting and training caught up?

then he should give the credit to PP. Would actually be better for him as it would take those issues completely off the table.

That would go over well. We didn't get a warm fuzzy feeling for the navy when we were in Esquimalt last unless things have changed.