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With a population of 30,000, there are of course many schools on the Sunshine Coast. Public School District 46 has its own website: http://www.sd46.bc.ca/. It’s a good website full of useful resources such as who-is-who and school supply lists. |
The school calendar can be particularly useful because it looks ahead for a number of years – ideal for those that like to plan thing ...
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On-line calculators make it fairly easy to see what money can do for you in the long run. For instance, a simple savings calculator like this one http://www.ingdirect.ca/en/save-invest/isa/index.html shows you how money grows as well as the principle of compound interest. |
A useful tool is also the mortgage calculator. http://www.mortgagecalculatorcanada.com/ with simple-to-us ...
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Jackpot again! The Sunshine Coast hit the news this weekend with an article in “Weekend Review” about one author “who writes what she knows”. The author is Gibsons native Sarah Roberts, who set her book of short stories on the Sunshine Coast. |
The large photo with the article shows Sarah Roberts, however not with a background of Gibsons, rather one of Burrard Inlet – also a fi ...
Average Mortgage Grows 36% In 48 Months
Over the last four years the average Canadian mortgage has increased in size by 36%, according to data from Ipsos Reid’s Canadian Financial Monitor. Remembering that our property prices here are somewhat higher than the average in Canada, our figures are possibly much more dramatic.
There’s also been a slight shift towards variable rates which would be ...
Many parts of the Sunshine Coast are quite rural and remote – but cable service of great quality is available in most places. Since the Sunshine Coast now has digital cable service, many extra channels have become available including 40 commercial-free channels of CD-quality music through Galaxy. Additional services that are available include a 15-channel pay-per-view system for special even ...
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The term “inflation” originally referred to increases in the amount of money in circulation. Today, the term monetary inflation is generally used to distinguish such an occurrence from a general rise in prices, sometimes called price inflation. The occurrence of an increase of the quantity of money and the overall money supply has occurred in many different societies throughout ... |
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Occasionally, you may hear the term “co-listing” and wonder what that entails, what the benefits are and if there are perhaps also reasons why “co-listing” might not work well |
Generally speaking, a request for “co-listing” will come from a real estate agent who is not familiar with the area but needs to list a property for a client. Since we must work within the scope of our ...
It’s been a few weeks since we’ve heard a full round of interest rate forecasts from the various major banks. These people aren’t soothsayers, they are actual economists that get paid handsomely to tell us where interest rates are headed. They have access to every data source, academic study, historical back-test, and analysis tool imaginable. So if you’re creating amortization models based ...
The United States, so close yet so far away, are finding right now that about one in 10 households is facing foreclosure. More than two million homes have been repossessed since the recession began. Few expect the outlook to improve until companies start to hire steadily again and layoffs ease.
And while there was some good news Thursday — a modest decrease in the number of Americans filing ...
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The Vancouver Sun offers fairly little news about the Sunshine Coast – which probably makes sense since it’s only a small market of 30,000 souls in a province of 4.5 Million people. |
However, when there is an article about “our” Sunshine Coast, I tend to gravitate to it – reading it with pride from beginning to end, sometimes even more than once. It’s a bit like the feeling that many C ...