by REM Editorial Team | May 27, 2019 | Featured, Letters to the Editor
Re: Is it time for CREA to hire a lobbyist? The myths presented in the letter are erroneous. We don’t host cocktail parties. We have made over a dozen submissions on FINTRAC. We advocate regularly on the stress test. When it comes to lobbying expertise, CREA is ranked...
by REM Editorial Team | May 23, 2019 | Featured, Letters to the Editor
Some of you may have read my letter to the editor, regarding the stress (me out) test and CREA’s advocacy efforts to change it. It received some commentary from across the country, including some directly to my email. The opinions of the commenters ran roughly like...
by Todd Shyiak | Feb 4, 2019 | Featured, Guest Columns
The fear of the unknown can be unsettling. Zillow coming to Canada has unsettled some. But the fact is, Zillow isn’t the unknown and we have no reason to be fearful. Zillow has been in the U.S. for 12 years and the sky hasn’t fallen for Realtors there – quite the...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 15, 2019 | Boards & Associations, Featured
Bill Harrington, general counsel at CREA, recently announced that he will retire in April. “April will be the 26th anniversary of my employment with CREA. It will also represent the 40th anniversary of when I started practising law,” wrote Harrington. “After having...
by Jim Adair | Dec 17, 2018 | Boards & Associations, Featured, Profiles
Michael Bourque, CEO of the Canadian Real Estate Association, doesn’t like the term “organized real estate”. He says the staff at CREA’s Ottawa offices no longer use it, because they know he doesn’t like it. “You’ve got organized labour and organized crime and I don’t...
