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Why we need to tax Canada’s million-dollar homeowners

Canada’s housing crisis is getting worse. Taxing million-dollar-home owners can help tackle the scourge of housing unaffordability, argues Paul Kershaw, a policy professor at the UBC School of Population and Public Health. Kershaw, founder of the “think and change tank” Generation Squeeze, says one of the best ways to tame out-of-control housing costs is to target the country’s tax policy.

“People talk about housing inflation like it’s a bad thing for everyone, but it’s making a lot of owners rich—and many of those gains aren’t subject to taxation. In fact, our tax system has sheltered much of the $3.2 trillion in added housing wealth that homeowners have pocketed since 1977.”

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Len and Cub: A secret love unearthed after more than a century

Dusty Green was completing a summer internship at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick when a colleague introduced him to some photos donated by John Corey, an artist, community historian and general collector of things. The photos unearthed a remarkable love story more than 100 years in the making. Read More

How Joshua Whitehead is bringing Indigenous language to CanLit

In his latest book, Making Love With the Land, Oji-Cree author Joshua Whitehead opens up a whole new window on Canadian literature. Growing up, his Cree language skills were rudimentary, and he was drawn instead to the likes of Ursula K. Le Guin, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. “I was trained, like we all are, really, to write white,” Whitehead says. Read More

I’m the Rare Plant Fairy. I sell exotic plants to customers worldwide.

Jocelyn Ho started selling plants out of a spare bedroom during the pandemic. Now she has a team of employees selling over 100 species of exotic plants online and from her brick-and-mortar shops and online shop headquartered in Detroit. Business is booming, because the rare plant industry is more popular than ever. Read More

Cottage Industry: A stately B&B in historic Saint Andrews

“I don’t know that we were particularly surprised by the pace of the market in New Brunswick, having watched it from a distance,” says Deirdre O'Leary, who purchased the property with her husband, Tom White. “But we know we got in at the right time: another couple bought their place for $250,000 and recently listed it for $639,000.” Read More

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The demand for responsible leadership is driven by the next generation of students and UBC Sauder School of Business is giving them the opportunity to fuel their professional goals. Read more

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How B.C. is learning to live with relentless wildfires

Last summer, the forests of British Columbia were engulfed in flames. At some points, there were as many as 80 new fires each day across the province.

Wildfires in British Columbia are hotter, bigger, and deadlier than ever. For residents in B.C., they are also a frightening, elemental fact of everyday life.

One year after the catastrophe, Maclean’s revisits the danger zones to hear from the firefighters, survivors and homeowners living with the constant threat of wildfires in this portrait of a province in flames.

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