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Did you even read your own link? Besides sales dropping 4% (which it says was expected due to the rate hikes) every other stat they listed was up year-over-year or month-over-month.

Price growth has remained solid in Quebec and the East Coast, followed by British Columbia and the Prairies. Ontario is now a mixed bag, still with some of the bigger increases but also some of the bigger declines.

That sounds to me like the only area where prices aren't still growing are parts of Ontario and maybe the territories.

That's good to hear, but I think it's disingenuous to say that EVs are the cheaper option when talking about people who aren't within reach of even the cheapest new cars. Until we start seeing used decent condition EVs under $10k they're still out of reach to a lot of people. It sucks because these are the same people who would benefit most from the lower operating costs.

Yearly tax on residential units, offset by refundable tax credits. This means that only non-residents would pay this tax, discouraging foreign speculators.

Could it make sense to only be refundable for 1 unit? If someone has multiple units they should theoretically be paying enough tax for it to not make a difference. This would catch anyone who's a resident but not declaring any income.

A combination of the 2 sounds good actually. Heavy taxes as you mentioned but also exemptions for purpose built rentals (as an entire building, not individual units)

Try being a server some time and reject any tips that come your way. The customers will not be too thrilled.

I don't think anyone's suggesting tips should be banned. It's just that tips shouldn't be expected from each customer. Someone working at any given fast food restaurant (not to mention other low level service jobs) is working just as hard as a server at a sit down restaurant for the same pay. Why should I be expected to tip one and not the other? Also, why is 15-20% considered a proper tip? 10% shouldn't be treated like it's an insult.

I would have no problem paying early. It would make going out for food when you have limited time better because you can just walk out whenever.

Someone buying an investment property doesn't increase the amount of housing available. Sure, it's one more rental available, but it's also one less home available to be purchased by someone planning to live in it. I won't claim to be any kind of expert, but it's pretty obvious that it having a middle man extracting profit increases housing costs overall.

The type of investors that do increase housing are developers. In the tax model above, the developers can apply to have the tax reduced to 5% which seems to make it much more lucrative than buying individual houses to rent as is.

My car tracks my average speed for some reason, and I believe it's based on engine hours vs. distance. After 2½ years and ~70,000km it's stayed pretty consistent at about 60km/h.

My driving is probably 90% highway by distance, or 60% by time.