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  1. Whistler community more than Whistler Village, skiing and mountain biking

    Resort community offers so much more than carousing, skiing and mountain biking Andrew McCredieThe Province If your idea of culture in Whistler is hooking up with German tourists at last call at Garfinkel’s for some late-night poutine and falafals, you clearly haven’t been to the four-season resort lately. True, the classic pub crawl still winds […]

    By Les Twarog Vancouver Real Estate and Condo Blog
    08-07-2017
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  2. Buying fake jobs to immigrate to Canada

    Douglas ToddThe Vancouver Sun Canadian employers are creating fake jobs so would-be immigrants can quickly get citizenship. Immigration “consultants” often arrange the illicit deals, which frequently result in Canadian business owners being paid to fabricate non-existent jobs. Other times, the migrants perform actual work, while themselves handing cash to the employer under the table to […]

    By Les Twarog Vancouver Real Estate and Condo Blog
    07-07-2017
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  3. Do you have consent? Anti-spam rules in effect July 1

    REBGVother Changes to Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) come into effect on July 1. These changes state that you can only send a commercial electronic message (CEM), which includes emails, texts or social media messages, to people who’ve given implied consent. Implied consent based on an ‘existing business relationship’ is achieved if you’ve: done business with […]

    By Les Twarog Vancouver Real Estate and Condo Blog
    03-07-2017
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  4. Pollster Keeps Tabs On Nation?s Mood

    JOHN MACKIEThe Vancouver Sun Angus Reid started off his professional life as a sociology professor at the University of Manitoba. But he didn’t last long. Academia was too slow for Reid, whose entrepreneurial knack and a passion for politics led him to take a leave of absence from the university to start a polling firm […]

    By Les Twarog Vancouver Real Estate and Condo Blog
    25-06-2017
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  5. Are you in compliance with the Anti-Spam Law?

    Darci LaRocqueother There is no one above the law. It may sound and feel so cliché but it is the truth. With information being passed along different medium these days, most noticeably, electronic communication – social media, emails and the likes, it is easy to make a mistake and break the law! Recent technological advancements […]

    By Les Twarog Vancouver Real Estate and Condo Blog
    01-06-2017
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  6. Victoria-to-Vancouver ferry launching in May targets luxury market

    Luxury ferry service to offer 3 pricing levels JEFF BELLThe Vancouver Sun V2V Vacations says it expects to launch its passenger ferry service between downtown Victoria and downtown Vancouver on May 1 with three tiers of service, at $120, $199 and $240 one way. The company is billing its offering as a luxury cruise service, using […]

    By Les Twarog Vancouver Real Estate and Condo Blog
    17-02-2017
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  7. ?Amazing? hourly service on Sunshine Coast ferries will likely end in April

    Randy ShoreThe Province A switch to hourly sailings on the Horseshoe Bay-Langdale ferry route has Sunshine Coast residents ecstatic, and B.C. Ferries is paying attention. More than 100 people responded to a straw poll about the temporary schedule on the Sunshine Coast Facebook page with responses ranging from “amazing” and “fantastic” to “it actually runs on time.” The […]

    By Les Twarog Vancouver Real Estate and Condo Blog
    04-02-2017
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  8. Essilor to Buy Ray-Ban Maker Luxottica for About $24 Billion

    $24B deal creates global giant in lenses, frames, eyeglasses Thomas Mulier and Dan Liefgreen The Vancouver Sun French lensmaker Essilor International SA agreed to buy Luxottica Group SpA, the maker of Ray-Ban sunglasses, for about 22.8 billion euros ($24 billion) in stock, combining the largest manufacturer and retailer in eyewear. Leonardo Del Vecchio, who created Luxottica […]

    By Les Twarog Vancouver Real Estate and Condo Blog
    16-01-2017
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  9. Ottawa eyes new drone rules

    LARRY PYNNThe Province Transport Canada launched a record 118 investigations into the illegal use of drones this year across the country, including 18 in B.C. The federal department also issued a record 16 fines for drone-related violations in Canada to Dec. 1 this year — half of those in B.C. There were just five fines […]

    By Les Twarog Vancouver Real Estate and Condo Blog
    25-12-2016
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  10. Canadian and US Employment

    other Canadian employment increased by 67,000 jobs in September, the largest single month gain since 2012. However, 50,000 of those job gains were from those reporting self-employment while public and private sector employment accounted for just 17,000 new jobs.  The national unemployment rate was unchanged at 7 per cent and total hours worked, which is […]

    By Les Twarog Vancouver Real Estate and Condo Blog
    07-10-2016
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