2024: The Year in Business
We’ve expanded our consumer reporting, diving deeper into the world of work, real estate, and shifting industries
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When Your Landlord Is a Billion-Dollar Corporation
Real estate trusts are sending rents soaring and reshaping Canada’s cities
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I Can’t Buy a Home, So I’m Fixing Up a Decrepit Farmhouse
In Cape Breton, housing was never an issue. Now I’m priced out—and picking up the power tools
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Want to Fight Climate Change? Fix Housing
Treating the two calamities as separate issues misses a huge opportunity to address both
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Loblaw Has Become an Everything Company
The grocery chain is now involved in pharmacare, financial services, and real estate—with no signs of slowing down
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Airbnb’s Devastating Effect on Canadian Housing
How Montreal priced out long-term renters as thousands of homes became vacation suites
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There Is No Housing Crisis
Supply alone will not solve a problem that large sections of the population don’t want to fix
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Many Canadians Will Never Own a Home. Does It Matter?
Our country has spent decades incentivizing home ownership. What would it take to make Canada a nation of renters?
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Why Hudson’s Bay Company’s Future Is in Question
HBC saw its start during London’s bubonic plague and might see its end in the aftermath of COVID-19’s retail devastation
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I’m Haunted by the Mansions of My Youth
I grew up having nightmares about big houses that represented the trauma of my childhood. As an adult living through the housing crisis, my relationship with mansions has only grown more complicated
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