Micro-shelter communities are being floated as one way to provide emergency housing for people experiencing homelessness in Toronto.
However, some challenges have emerged, as 44 city-owned properties identified for potential sites have all been deemed unsuitable.
Nonetheless, the City of Toronto is moving forward with a two-year pilot, with the caveat that interested non-profits must come up with private land options.
Most Canadians want the government to ban or regulate algorithmic pricing, a new poll suggests — with half of respondents saying the practice is unfair because it can result in people paying different prices for the same product.
The Abacus Data poll, which was conducted online and can’t be assigned a margin of error, polled 1,931 Canadians on algorithmic pricing.
Our elites are hard at work.
They import cheap labour to depress wages and raise the price of everything.
Now with algorithmic pricing they have a modernized stealth version of the “Company Store”.
They won’t clean up the homeless camps because they want you to know that’s where you’ll end up if you make a fuss.
Welcome to the New Canada.
B.C. Premier David Eby has signalled he won’t support the federal government’s move to temporarily increase rural employers’ allowances for temporary foreign workers, saying there should be a pathway to permanent residency instead.
It comes after an event Monday on the Sunshine Coast where the local MP re-announced a move to allow rural employers to have up to 15 per cent of their workforce be low-wage temporary foreign workers (TFW).
The new foreign workers cap is up from the current cap of 10 per cent, and would allow for eligible workers to get an automatic one-year extension on their work permits.
Send them back. Send the politicians who support this assault on our economic and social security back with them.
Among the G7 countries, Canada still posts the highest food inflation rate
Canada’s food inflation rate eased to 5.4% in February 2026, down from 7.3% previously. At first glance, this looks like progress. But the reality behind the numbers suggests Canadians shouldn’t celebrate just yet.
Food inflation remains 3.6 percentage points above overall inflation, which means groceries are still becoming more expensive faster than most other goods in the economy. While the pace of increase has slowed, the pressure on household budgets has not disappeared.
The latest numbers on inflation from Statistics Canada showing overall inflation dropping are already outdated.
The federal agency released its latest report on Monday morning showing the Consumer Price Index rose 1.8% in February compared to a year earlier.
Canada’s housing market is waking up for the spring selling season, but young prospective homebuyers would be justified to remain in a state of prolonged hibernation.
For over two years homes in much of the country have been getting more affordable, thanks to a mix of softer prices and, later, falling interest rates. The problem is that, for the most part, we are still nowhere close to pre-pandemic levels of affordability. With the exception of condos, owning a home remains far more expensive than it was before the last housing boom.
Crude oil prices are behaving like the tide these days — moving up and down with unsettling force. Just this past week, prices jumped from roughly $78 on March 10 to above $95 by March 13.
For the food industry, this kind of volatility is far more troubling than a steady rise in energy costs. Gradual increases can be managed. Wild swings cannot.
What are the biggest issues facing the British people? Any pollster who asks this question invariably gets two responses: immigration and the cost of living. And not without reason: both are out of control and they are both impossible to ignore. It hasn’t escaped most people’s attention that their neighbourhood has been completely transformed in the space of a decade, or that their once manageable wage goes half as far as it used to.
This should not be but across the west elites push mass migration and net zero tyranny enacting every possible roadblock to a reasonable standard of living.
Their agenda is control by impoverishing the masses.
That’s you and me.
More Canadians are relying on credit to put food on the table — and sacrificing nutrition in the process — according to a new survey that shows how the strain of Canada’s affordability crisis is increasingly surfacing in grocery aisles.
A new survey from insolvency and debt relief firm Spergel finds that a majority of the 269 Canadians questioned said they had skipped meals or reduced portion sizes in the past six months due to financial pressure. Fifty three per cent of the respondents, who were between the ages of 30 and 60, reported using credit, buy-now-pay-later services, lines of credit or payday loans to purchase groceries in the last six months.
If there’s one thing Canadians can reliably expect from our housing market as we approach the spring, it’s plenty of drama.
No matter which group the market ends up favouring – those in search of a home or those looking to offload one – the high costs and high stakes of Canadian real estate are guaranteed to stir up the kind of suspense typical of a bingeworthy TV show. By its very nature, our market-based housing system is adversarial. It pits buyers against sellers and renters against landlords in a battle for fairness and fortune. That our system produces winners and losers has become a perverse but accepted norm in our society; it’s just the way it works.
By virtually any other measure, however, it doesn’t work very well at all.
Building houses is still affordable; it’s the layers of government that make buying a house prohibitively expensive.
I was driving last week in Toronto, Canada, with the radio on, half-listening to the usual talk‑show chatter, when a guest said something that made me turn up the volume. The host on CFRB 1010 in Toronto was interviewing Richard Lyall, the longtime president of the Residential Construction Council of Ontario. Lyall is not a politician, not an activist, not a partisan warrior. He’s a construction‑industry veteran who has spent more than three decades studying the cost of building homes in Canada. And what he said was stunning in its simplicity.
With Tuesday’s release of new data from Statistics Canada, the conclusion is unequivocal: for the second consecutive month, Canada is posting the highest food inflation rate among G7 countries. Food inflation now stands at 7.3%.
Beef, nuts, pork, and even chicken are between 5% and 7% more expensive than a year ago. The only relief comes from eggs and fresh fruit, which are cheaper on a year-over-year basis.
Here’s the truth about the housing crisis in Canada: it is no longer just a policy problem. It is becoming a political identity problem.
A new national survey conducted by Abacus Data in partnership with the Canadian Home Builders’ Association (CHBA) finds that Canadians have not given up on the dream of homeownership. In fact, it remains deeply rooted. Seven in ten non-homeowners (70%) still say they want to own a home someday, including nearly nine in ten young adults aged 18 to 29 (89%) and 80% of those aged 30 to 44.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is embracing the politics of economic tinkering, offering a rebranded, narrowly targeted GST credit top-up when Canadians need broad, structural relief. While the government says it is responding to the affordability crisis, modest tweaks to the GST credit will not deliver the kind of meaningful, universal relief that cutting income taxes would.
Ontario’s home-building industry is in crisis, but there’s reason to hope that Premier Doug Ford will come to the rescue.
New home sales numbers in the GTA have never been worse than they were in 2025 and vacant inventory is stockpiling to the point where building more homes doesn’t make financial sense.
