In the on-going debate over Metro Vancouver’s housing challenges, the Vancouver Sun’s populist columnist, Douglas Todd, has once again played the nationalism card. In a June 7 comment, Todd warns that Canadian sovereignty is under threat from a lawsuit filed by some foreigners against the British Columbia government for imposing a tax on their purchase of homes […]

Ng Weng Hoong, OnePacificNews, Wednesday, February 28, 2018 Could Canada, with the right approach and rules, turn the ‘problem’ of global capital seeking safe havens into a solution for the housing and infrastructure needs of its rapidly-growing cities? Since 2008, the world has been hit by a tsunami of money created out of nothing by […]

A day after the April 26 launch of the Hong Kong Studies Initiative (HKSI) at Canada’s University of British Columbia (UBC), the Hong Kong police force stepped up its crackdown on China’s critics with the arrest of nine elected officials and independence promoters. A week later, three pro-democracy activists and former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten […]

With an unpredictable celebrity running the White House, the Middle East will soon be dealt another wild card: China as a player in the Israel-Palestine peace talks. Like Donald Trump who started the 2016 US presidential race as a 100-to-1 dark horse, China’s potential role in the world’s most protracted territorial dispute has barely registered […]

September 23, 2016 Success! Those seeking to reduce foreign, especially Chinese, buying of Vancouver’s real estate are celebrating the latest set of data showing their hard work is paying off. Foreigners bought only 60 properties to account for a mere 0.7% of all Metro Vancouver sales in August, down sharply from the historical norm of […]