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Islanders goon it up and pay vs LA. They give up a goal on the 5-on-3 and following PP. Matt Martin might not have 2 brain cells to rub together.
 
Islanders get a game management interference call. Which is pretty funny considering 5 minutes ago a King on a break away got judo tossed with no call.
 
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Perfect scorecard for the night. Islanders, Senators, Capitals, Red Wings and Penguins all lose in regulation.
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GMs wonder if foreign players could be exempt from Canadian house-purchasing law

With a new law in Canada prohibiting non-Canadian residents from purchasing residential property through 2024, we surveyed some agents and GMs to ascertain just how big of an impediment they think this will be for Canadian NHL teams in free agency.
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This is really interesting.

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Hurricanes' Svechnikov to undergo season-ending ACL surgery

Carolina Hurricanes star Andrei Svechnikov will undergo season-ending reconstructive surgery on his right ACL on Thursday, the team announced.He'll miss the remainder of the regular season as well as the entirety of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Svechnikov was injured Saturday against the Vegas...
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Oof
 
Mattilaus said:
There should probably be some exceptions but this is a needed measure up here for sure. They should have also banned corporate ownership of single family homes, but what do I know.
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That's an issue in the States too. Crazy that we let them get away with it but it's harder to buy a Congressman these days.
 
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There should probably be some exceptions but this is a needed measure up here for sure. They should have also banned corporate ownership of single family homes, but what do I know.
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Why is banning home sales to foreigners needed?

I would think that banning corporate ownership of homes and maybe limiting foreigners to owning one home would be enough.

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Also, does this preclude a foreigner from building a new home? I am thinking of Ekholm as an example.
 
Jim Bob said:
Why is banning home sales to foreigners needed?

I would think that banning corporate ownership of homes and maybe limiting foreigners to owning one home would be enough.

:dunno:

Also, does this preclude a foreigner from building a new home? I am thinking of Ekholm as an example.
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It does. The short answer is this possibly isn't needed but SOMETHING is and this is the easier thing to do to placate the masses than most other actions.

The Canadian economy is essentially currently held up by its housing market. We bring in around 500k immigrants a year. That doesn't sound like much when it comes to a country as big as the USA, but for Canada, a country with a population of 40m, it is quite a lot. We do need immigration as we are on the lower end for birth rates, but it is still a lot on a per year basis. On top of this corporate and foreign corporate entities have been gobbling up the housing market for decades. This restriction does include foreign owned corporations as well. It's supposed to be a measure to give some time to get the housing stock back up.

This is essentially scrambling to try and do anything to stop the inflation of house prices.

In 2018 the average home in Canada was around 490k. 4 years later in 2022 it was 703k. That is a ridiculous jump in 4 years.
 
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It does. The short answer is this possibly isn't needed but SOMETHING is and this is the easier thing to do to placate the masses than most other actions.

The Canadian economy is essentially currently held up by its housing market. We bring in around 500k immigrants a year. That doesn't sound like much when it comes to a country as big as the USA, but for Canada, a country with a population of 40m, it is quite a lot. We do need immigration as we are on the lower end for birth rates, but it is still a lot on a per year basis. On top of this corporate and foreign corporate entities have been gobbling up the housing market for decades. This restriction does include foreign owned corporations as well. It's supposed to be a measure to give some time to get the housing stock back up.

This is essentially scrambling to try and do anything to stop the inflation of house prices.

In 2018 the average home in Canada was around 490k. 4 years later in 2022 it was 703k. That is a ridiculous jump in 4 years.
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It seems to me that this will not have a major impact on things and just look like it is doing something with the major impact being to non-voters.

But, what do I know...

Also, not allowing foreigners to build new homes seems to be something that hurts the push to get housing stock back up.

:dunno:
 
Jim Bob said:
It seems to me that this will not have a major impact on things and just look like it is doing something with the major impact being to non-voters.

But, what do I know...

Also, not allowing foreigners to build new homes seems to be something that hurts the push to get housing stock back up.

:dunno:
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I don't want to turn this into a political thread so I will just let this topic die here. Honestly, I am not informed enough to know one way or the other. So I don't want to dispute your points with no backing.

All I do know is I moved 5000km from Ontario to the northwest territories so that my wife and I could finally own a home and live somewhere where salaries line up closer to the cost of living. We like it here, but we were high earners in Ontario as well and we really shouldn't have had to take such drastic measures and move so far away from family if we didn't want to.
 
Mattilaus said:
I don't want to turn this into a political thread so I will just let this topic die here. Honestly, I am not informed enough to know one way or the other. So I don't want to dispute your points with no backing.

All I do know is I moved 5000km from Ontario to the northwest territories so that my wife and I could finally own a home and live somewhere where salaries line up closer to the cost of living. We like it here, but we were high earners in Ontario as well and we really shouldn't have had to take such drastic measures and move so far away from family if we didn't want to.
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BTW, this isn't just a Canada issue. Thankfully we bought our home in 2015 before things went crazy.
 
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BTW, this isn't just a Canada issue. Thankfully we bought our home in 2015 before things went crazy.
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I agree it is not just a Canada issue, but that doesn't mean you don't try to fix it. We are buying this year. Of course now you have everyone coming out of the woodwork saying there is a bubble and everything will collapse. Well....I have been waiting for that bubble to burst for the last 20 years and it hasn't happened. We are financially sound enough to weather any kind of storm and are tired of living above and below people in apartments.
 
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