From the push to build Highway 413 to the realities of COVID-19’s third wave, we’ve selected some of the best long reads of the week on thestar.com. Sign up for the Weekend Long Reads newsletter to get them delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. Four of the developers are connected to Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government through party officials and former Tory politicians now acting as registered lobbyists. ‘Canada hasn’t had a market overheating of this scope since the late 1980s’: Economists warn Canada’s housing market may be in for a nasty tumbleToronto’s red-hot housing market is giving David Rosenberg flashbacks to the early aughts, when the U.S. housing market entered a bubble that ended in disaster. Now, by nearly every metric he looks at, Rosenberg says, the financial conditions in Canada’s housing market are similar to the U.S. market then — and politicians should be gravely concerned.

Source: thestar April 10, 2021 10:52 UTC