This Week’s Top Stories: Canadians Are Leaving In Unusually High Volumes, & Real Estate Prices Climb

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadians Permanently Leaving Hits The Highest Level Since 1967  Canadian policymakers were so focused on growing the temporary population that they missed the citizen outflow. Emigration, the act of a citizen or permanent resident leaving for good, ramped up in Q4 2024. […]

Canada’s National Housing Agency’s Forecast Is More Like Fan Fiction

Canada’s national housing agency just published its latest piece of fan fiction. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has released its 2025 Housing Outlook, the agency’s forecast of various risk scenarios. The agency’s worst case scenario includes American tariffs delivering a devastating economic blow. The agency somehow sees this producing higher home prices, an immigration […]

This Week’s Top Stories: 1 In 5 Canadian Real Estate Sellers Canceled Listings, & Overinflated Population Data

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Population Grew Fast, But It Was Massively Overstated Canada’s fast-growing population isn’t moving nearly as fast it led people to believe. Due to the difficulty of tracking people leaving the country, the number of remaining immigrants is significantly inflated. The national […]

Canadian Population Update Trims Nearly 4 Million People

Canada’s brief immigration policy shift will have a much bigger impact than people appreciate. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) released its latest population projections, factoring in the November 2024 immigration policy changes from the IRCC. Most see the 2-year shift as too small to have much impact, forgetting that population growth went from high to out-of-control […]