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Tuesday, July 26, 2016 11:30 AM
Updated data on foreign investment show more than $885 million in foreign investment flowed into Metro Vancouver’s residential real estate market in just five weeks, representing 86% of the capital invested in the sector by foreign purchasers throughout the province.
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Monday, July 25, 2016 10:20 AM
Legislation introduced creates new measures to help make home ownership more affordable, establishes a fund for market housing and rental initiatives, strengthens consumer protection, and gives the City of Vancouver the tools it requested to increase rental property supply.
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Friday, July 22, 2016 9:00 AM
The initial board of directors for the Capital Markets Regulatory Authority has been chosen and new timelines for implementing the authority have been set, announced Finance Minister Michael de Jong on behalf of the Council of Ministers.
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Thursday, July 21, 2016 11:00 AM
As the province leading Canada in economic growth, British Columbia produced a balanced 2015-16 budget while making record levels of investment in core services like healthcare and education, Finance Minister Michael de Jong announced with the release of the 2015-16 Public Accounts.
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Thursday, July 14, 2016 1:20 PM
Canadian economist Bev Dahlby has been named as chair of the B.C. Tax Competitiveness Commission.
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Thursday, July 7, 2016 11:05 AM
The Province released the first set of data resulting from new measures to track the extent of foreign real estate transactions.
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Wednesday, June 29, 2016 1:00 PM
Premier Christy Clark announced that government will end the industry self-regulation in the real estate industry and overhaul governance, oversight, transparency and accountability of the sector.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016 2:40 PM
Finance Minister Michael de Jong made the following statement in response to the Real Estate Council of B.C. releasing the Independent Advisory Group’s final report on B.C.’s real estate sector.
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Monday, June 20, 2016 4:44 PM
Finance ministers reached consensus on an agreement-in-principle to recommend a modest and balanced incremental enhancement to the Canada Pension Plan, starting in 2019 and phased in over seven years until 2025.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016 12:32 PM
Bargaining under the 2014 Economic Stability Mandate is now substantially complete, with 99% of the British Columbia public sector covered by tentative and ratified agreements negotiated under the mandate.
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