Category: Canada

Homes sell for under the asking price in the GTA. And rents in Canada fall for 11th straight month

TORONTO – In almost every neighbourhood in Toronto and the GTA, homes sold for below asking prices last month, according to a report by Wahi, a real estate analytics firm. “In August, the share of neighbourhoods in underbidding territory across the region matched a three-year high” said Wahi’s Josh Sherman. According to the report, released on September 4 (and available here), 98% of GTA neighbourhoods with at least five home sales during the month were underbid in August, up from 95% in July and 89% a year ago.

CORRIERE CANADESE / Lavoratori stranieri, canadesi con Poilievre

TORONTO – Il tema è spinoso e di conseguenza è destinato a dividere. La proposta di Pierre Poilievre di eliminare il programma governativo sui lavoratori stranieri temporanei – Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) – ha suscitato in questi giorni polemiche e veleni, con il governo federale che rimane sulle sue – sì ad un’eventuale riforma, no all’abolizione tout court – e con il leader conservatore che ha trovato per strada degli alleati inaspettati, primo tra tutti il premier della British Columbia David Eby… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

CORRIERE CANADESE / Giuseppe Mercurio: Art Without Boundaries

TORONTO – I wanted to see the artwork of Giuseppe Mercurio in the “context’ which I thought I heard him present as “distinctly his”: non linear, non geometric and non-restricted by “styles and norms” attributable, potentially, to a particular school of Art and Design distinguishable from any other. Rather, Mercurio prefers his work to be seen as a “burst of feelings”, an “explosion of emotions”, whose context may be limited by “experiences” the viewer might share with the author… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>>