by Tony Palermo | Jan 31, 2017 | Featured, News
In spring 2016, a spokesperson for the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC), Canada’s financial intelligence unit, told REM that significant deficiencies in how some real estate salespeople and brokerages in the Vancouver area were handling...
by Tony Palermo | Apr 11, 2016 | Featured, News
Significant deficiencies in how some salespeople and brokerages in the Vancouver area are handling their obligations under Canada’s anti-money laundering law has prompted Canada’s financial intelligence unit to increase the number of examinations it performs in the...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 23, 2015 | Letters to the Editor
What a mess. I speak of the draconian and ugly FINTRAC legislation that Prime Minister Harper passed in 2008. It is a total flop. One hundred and ten thousand members of CREA along with thousands of other small business persons were mandated by law to carry out...
by Jim Adair | Dec 15, 2014 | Boards & Associations, Featured, Profiles
Recently REM editor Jim Adair interviewed CREA president Beth Crosbie at the association’s offices in Ottawa. Crosbie is a sales representative with Coldwell Banker Pro Co in St. John’s, N.L.. Also sitting in were CREA CEO Gary Simonsen, vice-president of government...
