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October 2008

Canadian Real Estate Events Calendar

October 9, 2008 For Real Estate Investors

It’s hard to keep track of all the things going on these days, and it’s easy to miss out. There are meetings, events, webinars, and releases of important information. I’ve decided to bring it all together in a calendar. This is intended for investors like myself, members of the Real Estate Investment Network (REIN) and [...]

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A Picture of My Thousand Words

October 8, 2008 Cool Websites

My friend Andrew over at MarketingFinger told me about Wordle. It’s a tool that takes a blog or a bunch of text and creates a awesome looking semantic word cloud out of it. Here’s what the one for this site looks like. Click here to see the original. FYI, I had to put my RSS [...]

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Edmonton Oilers New Old Third Jersey

October 7, 2008 Edmonton

I love my Edmonton Oilers. As someone who grew up in Edmonton and lived through the glory years as a boy, there’s no way I would ever be able to cheer for another team. I went to High School at Ross Shep where Wayne Gretzky theoretically attended when he first came to Edmonton. I played [...]

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The best economic quote of the week

October 6, 2008 The Economy

My favorite one-liner came from the meeting of the Economic Club of Toronto this morning. Trying to do an economic forecast in this kind of turmoil is a bit like trying to put a value on your house when the kitchen is on fire. – Douglas Porter of BMO Capital Markets

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Canada’s Economy to “Weaken”

October 6, 2008 The Economy

They had an ‘emergency’ panel over at the Economic Club of Toronto this morning before Stats Can releases some reports that may freak people out. That’d be the building permit reports today, and the housing price index and labour force survey on Friday. The five pannelists were  Warren Jestin of Scotiabank, Don Drummond of TD [...]

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Canada’s Real Estate Market Won’t Meltdown

October 4, 2008 The Economy

Benjamin Tal, who I’ve discussed before after his July 2008 presentation on the state of the Canadian and US economies to the Real Estate Investment Network, was finally quoted in some good context in a CBC article. (Hat tip to Gary McGowan and Don Campbell on myREINspace) It’s nice when the mainstream media publishes something [...]

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Double Song of the Week!

October 3, 2008 Song of the Week

I was a big slacker last week because I was worried about closing on a condo in Edmonton and I missed posting the song of the week. To make up for it, here’s a double dose of Colin Hay. I’ve posted his song (I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever) Get Over You before, but it’s [...]

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