This could be because of the recent government
housing policy announcements, increased number of listings, uncertain lending conditions and fewer bidding wars.
Not exact matches
Yesterday I blogged about rental
housing in Yellowknife, over at the Northern Public Affairs web site. Specifically, I blogged about a recent
announcement by the city's largest for - profit landlord that it plans to «tighten» its
policies vis - a-vis renting to recipients of «income assistance» (which, in most parts of Canada, is known generically as social assistance).
Gregory Klump, CREA's Chief Economist, says, «Homebuyers and sellers both reacted to the recent Ontario government
policy announcement aimed at cooling
housing markets in and around Toronto.
After roundly castigating fellow Democrats and Republicans alike during his
announcement speech yesterday and proposing a host of
policy positions that seemed tailor - made to get under the speaker's skin, Cuomo today dodged the question about Silver, (the longest - serving legislative leader in Albany), saying it's not his place to determine who leads either
house.
The innocuous sounding motion relates to the tendency of ministers to tell the press about major
policy announcements before they tell the
House of Commons.
First, we commend you for the action that you have taken in ensuring that the Government get the message that important
policy announcements should be made to Members of this
House first and not to the wider media.
«That this
House commends the Speaker on the action he has taken over the past year to reassert the principle that Ministers ought to make statements to the
House before they are made elsewhere; notes that paragraph 9.1 of the Ministerial Code says that when Parliament is in session, the most important
announcements of Government
policy should be made in the first instance in Parliament; believes that compliance with this principle is essential for backbenchers to be able to represent the interests of their constituents and hold the Government to account; and invites the Procedure Committee to consider how the rules of the
House could be better used or, if necessary, changed to ensure compliance with this principle and to develop a protocol for the release of information.»
At 11 a.m., Cuomo makes an
announcement, Roosevelt
House, Public
Policy Institute at Hunter College, 47 - 49 E 65th St., Manhattan.
The White
House's political team has a close relationship with most of the top Republican Senate campaigns, regularly sharing details on
policy announcements and messaging.
This is done against the general principle set out in the Ministerial Code that when Parliament is in Session, the most important
announcements of Government
policy should be made in the first instance, in Parliament, and taking into account the importance of the issue and the other business before the
House.»
A live webcast includes the
announcements from Oslo by Nils Christian Stenseth, President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, as well as a special Kavli Prize program from the World Science Festival in New York, featuring opening remarks by John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White
House Office of Science and Technology
Policy, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
On February 2, Random
House, the only one of the «Big 6» publishers to provide ebooks to libraries without restrictions, made an
announcement that they would continue their generous
policy, but that there would be a price hike to deal with some of the issues surrounding permanent access to ebooks.
Still, the slowing construction sector and the tempered expectation for price appreciations in the
housing resale market are taking a toll on investor outlook — and this is prompting leading economists to suggest an interest rate cut by the Bank of Canada at tomorrow's monetary
policy announcement.
The recent
announcement is the sixth time since the onset of the 2008 financial crisis that Ottawa has taken
policy action in response to concerns about Canada's
housing market.
Even before the White
House made its
announcement, the Department of Justice had made clear that its
policies regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) will trump any local breed bans.
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David Doniger,
policy director of the Natural Resource Defense Council's climate program, described the White
House's
announcement as «a big deal.»
If that sounded suspiciously like another example of having your cake and eating it, maybe it is not so very different from the aspiration of Sajid Javid, the communities secretary, whose big
announcement last week about changes to
housing and planning
policy entailed some wishful thinking.
HUDCLIPS is the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development's official repository of
policies, procedures,
announcements and the like.
Monday's package of
announcements is the sixth time since the onset of the 2008 financial crisis that Ottawa has taken
policy action in response to concerns about Canada's
housing market.