How we verify every fact.

How a number gets onto the site

Every legislative, tax, and regulatory number lives in one registry, the Fact Bank, and every guide and calculator reads it from there. Each entry names its primary-source URL, the date I last confirmed the value against that source, the date the rule took effect, and the date my confirmation stops being trusted. When a rule changes, the old value is kept in the entry’s history.

Two checks run before anything goes live. An entry past its expiry date blocks the update until I re-check it. And when a figure changes, the build lists every page that still quotes the old one, so those pages change with it.

Each update also publishes a SHA-256 fingerprint of the whole set at /.well-known/codex-signature.json. To check it, fetch /api/v1/facts/index.json, compute its SHA-256 yourself, and compare. The full list of facts, dates and sources is on the transparency page.

Primary sources only

A fact is added only once it is sourced to a public, citable, primary-source URL. We define “primary source” narrowly:

• Government legislation, regulations, and information bulletins: gov.bc.ca, canada.ca, gc.ca, leg.bc.ca, BC Hansard.
• Federal regulators: OSFI guidelines, CMHC product rules, CRA technical interpretations, Bank of Canada rate announcements.
• BC regulators and self-regulatory bodies: BCFSA rules, BCREA standard forms, BC Assessment.
• Real estate boards: FVREB, GVR (formerly REBGV) for jurisdiction-bounded board rules and statistics.
• Statistics Canada: population, household, and labour-force figures.

Blog posts, press releases summarizing legislation, and brokerage-marketing PDFs are never primary sources. If a fact can only be sourced to a secondary write-up, we don’t publish it. Every source is listed on the sources page.

How often facts are re-checked

The window depends on how often the underlying rule moves:

• Stable rules (PTT brackets, designated agency, MLD, Form B fee, ALR additional-residence rules): every 180 days.
• Volatile metrics (annual rent cap, SVT rates, mortgage stress-test rate, BC Home Flipping Tax thresholds): every 90 days.

At each re-check the fact is opened against its cited source and the value is confirmed or amended, with the old value kept. To follow changes, subscribe to the RSS feed: every re-check and every value change adds an entry, so “is anything I cited last quarter still current?” takes seconds to answer.

Who writes it

Every page on bronsonjob.com is researched, written, and edited by Bronson Job, a licensed REALTOR® with Momentum Realty Inc. in the Fraser Valley, which is the publisher of record for all licence-bearing content under BCFSA marketing rules. There is no anonymous editorial team and no rotating freelance pool.

AI assistance: I use AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT) as a research and drafting aid, to structure outlines, find related primary-source URLs, and propose first-pass prose. Every sentence on the site is reviewed and signed off by me against the Fact Bank’s citations before it goes live. The Codex itself is never AI-generated: every fact is sourced to a human-verified primary URL with the retrieval date on file.

Report an inaccuracy

Spot a number that’s wrong, a source link that’s broken, or a rule that has changed since the last check? I want to know.

• Email bronson@bronsonjob.com with the fact’s name (shown at the foot of each cited figure) and the discrepancy.
• Every accepted correction is logged publicly at /corrections with the previous value, the new value, and the date it was replaced.