Articles by Carolyn Heller

Every year, Moneysense rates Canada’s Best Places to Live, weighing factors as diverse as weather, incomes and taxes, job prospects, access to health care, home affordability, crime rates, and overall lifestyle, including the percentage of …

When you’re thinking about where to retire, are you thinking about Canada?
Canada may not come to mind as readily as, say, Mexico, Costa Rica, or the south of France, but plenty of people do …

If you want to buy a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house, the cheapest city in Canada is Windsor, Ontario, where your “dream home” will cost an average of $170,991.
But if you’d rather settle in Vancouver, …

Canadian cities took four out of the top five spots among cities in the Americas in the 2012 Mercer Quality of Living survey, an annual assessment that compares the quality of life in 221 urban …

How much does it cost to buy a home in Canada? And where are the cheapest cities for housing?
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) recently released their fourth quarter 2012 report on real …