CMHC Tightens Lending Standards To Protect Housing Market During COVID-19

The country's national housing agency is increasing the qualifying credit score for mortgage insurance to 680 from 600 and limiting gross and total debt servicing ratios to their standards of 35 per c...

BC COVID-19 DAILY UPDATE: With Such Low Daily Cases Has BC Beaten The Virus And Should Open Faster?

There is no doubt that BC has been largely spared of the pain seen in other provinces especially Quebec and Ontario but the outlook here is good for a quicker start to the increased economic activity ...

Trudeau Liberals Holds Six-Point Lead Over Conservatives In Vote Intention

Support for Liberals grows as assessment of how the government has handled COVID-19 remains high.VANCOUVER – Justin Trudeau Liberals continue to hold a significant lead over the Conservatives as the...

BC COVID-19 DAILY UPDATE: Nine New Cases Including Four “Epi-Linked” Continuing Low Daily Average Trend

BC is including four epi-linked or epidemiologically linked cases in the Island Health and Vancouver Coastal Health region case reporting. 'Epi-linked' means that public health investigations have sho...

BC COVID-19 DAILY UPDATE: New Cases Jump Up to 22 On Wednesday But Daily Average Remain Below 15

New COVID-19 cases in BC jumped above 20 for the first time in two weeks but the daily average remains under 15 for the week. Health Minister Adrian Dix and Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.'s provincial health ...

BC COVID-19 DAILY UPDATE: Four New Cases Announced Tuesday As BC In Good Position To Accelerate Opening

Low new daily COVID-19 cases in BC are beginning to look like that the province has turned the corner on the coronavirus and that it should be able to accelerate the reopening. Health Minister Adrian ...

BC DAILY COVID-19 UPDATE: Weekend Registers 24 Cases Keeping The Average Well Below 15 Per Day

The weekend again saw low daily cases but this week will be the big test as the 14 day period of the Phase Two reopening comes up on Tuesday and cases from Wednesday onwards will tell the real story i...

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh Secures Paid Sick Leave for All Workers in Canada

"Every worker should have access to paid sick leave. Workers need to know they have the ability to choose to stay home with pay if they are sick," said NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. "No one should be forc...

OPINION: It’s Time To Share Your COVID-19 Experience

By Dr. Bonnie Henry - Provincial Health Officer andAdrian Dix - Minister of HealthVICTORIA - The effects of COVID-19 have been far reaching. Everybody in our province has been impacted, as well as eve...