1. Infinite Waters youtube video: How To Stop Other People's Energy From Destroying You
2. CBC Marketplace November 2016 episode, on the CBC News youtube channel: "Real Estate agents breaking the rules: Hidden camera investigation"
3. This article from lonerwolf.com: You're not going crazy: 15 signs you're a victim of gaslighting
4. This Western Investor article from June 2016: "B.C real estate industry stripped of self-regulation in wake of damming report. All Real Estate Council of BC regulatory powers will be transferred to a real estate superintendent."
5. This 2007 Government of Canada Competition Bureau Report: Self-regulated Professions - Balancing competition and regulation. Included in this report are 5 professions: lawyers, accountants, optometrists, pharmacists, and real estate agents. According to the section on realtors: "Provincial real estate councils regulate the real estate industry in six
of the ten provinces (Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince
Edward Island and New Brunswick are the exceptions). Provincial law and
regulation establish these councils to license real estate professionals
and to create and administer the rules agents must follow. In the
territories and the four provinces without real estate councils, the
governments directly license agents and regulate the profession." This means that the real estate industry in Alberta, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan are regulated by members of their own industry. British Columbia was also on this list of self-regulated provinces up until British Columbians realized they weren't being protected adequately from unethical behaviour and started flipping out, as described in the article above.
6. Question that came up from review of items 2, 4, 5 on this list: where Canadians have so much of their net worth tied up in property, and the Canadian real estate industry must worth a pile of dough by now should it be regulated by the federal government? Even the Canadian Real Estate Association has no regulatory authority over any board or commission in any of the provinces, despite having a national brand and national standards for real estate agents.
7. Good news for our local wild Atlantic salmon and salmon-lovers of all species, though I'm not sure what the date of posting is on the Municipality of the District of Lunenburg website: "The Municipality of the District of Lunenburg Moves to Protect the La Have River". Floodplains in the area will be mapped in order to improve environmental protection, including protection from infilling and development in flood-prone areas.
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