Karen Boies

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  • B.C. Premier Christy Clark to lift foreign buyers tax for those with work permits

    B.C. Premier Christy Clark to lift foreign buyers tax for those with work permits

    Premier Christy Clark announced Sunday that foreigners with work permits who live and work in B.C. will be exempted from the province’s 15-per-cent homebuyers tax. Clark made the statement during a scrum at Vancouver’s Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade in response to questions on U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim

  • 15 places to dine on Valentine’s Day in Metro Vancouver

    15 places to dine on Valentine’s Day in Metro Vancouver

    If you’re thinking that maybe it’d be nice to go out on Valentine’s Day to a nice restaurant for a yummy dinner, cocktails, wine, you’d better act now. Valentine’s Day is one of the busiest times of the year in the industry. I’ve rounded up a few places where you can have that yummy meal without

  • ‘Severely unaffordable’ Vancouver places third in survey

    ‘Severely unaffordable’ Vancouver places third in survey

    Vancouver is the third most unaffordable among a survey of major world cities, according to an international study. And with affordability deteriorating faster than any other major city, Vancouver also has the worst housing bubble risk, the study says. Meanwhile, a new poll shows that millennials across B.C. say Vancouver is the first place they would like