The columnist inserts a fascinating comment in his column, along the lines of "We own a detached home in Toronto, which automatically makes me a millionaire, but I can’t call myself one due to the way the numbers are crunched".

Hello?

The columnist owns more than a million dollars in Toronto real estate, and this is the same columnist who reports on Toronto real estate?

Wow!

I have a sneaking suspicion that if a columnist owned over a million dollars in stock in the "Acme Anvil Company" on the Toronto Stock Exchange...

... most newspapers would require the columnist to make a conflict of interests declaration at the end of each column that talked about prospects for the "Acme Anvil Company"...