Pascal:Not all provinces in Canada use judicial foreclosure - about half use contractual power of sale.You are not going to find the lists and websites of forthcoming foreclosures here in Canada due to both privacy law and the regulatory/compliance obligations of the lender ... that and mortgage default is less common here.Here you will typically find out about a foreclosed property or mortgage sale a few weeks before the auction when it is published in a local newspaper or the Royal Gazette (or equivalent) for the province.When you see a listing on MLS or Kijiji which indicates the property is a foreclosure, that property likely has already been to auction - and didn't sell - and was subsequently listed with a real estate agent.

Per newspaper articles more than 50% of the STRs in Richmond are "illegal" and all STRs in the city brought in over $3MM in revenue in 2018.I've reached out to the person responsible for overseeing the special use permit process, but he has not been responsive and I've been trying to get more info since October.

Through a newspaper ad from the owner.

If you can demonstrate that there truly are no heirs that can reasonably be determined, then the judge may allow you to do a Notice by Publication (you publish a few paragraphs in a newspaper of record).  

Twenty or more years ago we would have to put an ad in the newspaper with all kinds of silly abbreviations to keep the ad as small as possible, because the newspaper publisher had to be paid for such ads and charged per line of text that was printed.Be glad you can write out as much text as you want, and even include pictures, for a nominal charge.Having said that, there was another thread on this topic where I tried to see if TurboTenant was charging to place ads on the Zillow network of sites; that could be a solution, and even if not they will post to lots of sites to increase exposure.

I still remember when it cost 2–3 times that to run a garage sale ad in the local newspaper for just 2 days.

i.e. it eliminates newspapers, but there is more news, and it is more accessible, than ever.   

This was 20 years ago (1997) and I found the deal in the newspaper.

New York has a ridiculous LLC publication requirement that is a giveaway to the newspaper industry.

I do see my county list in the Legal section of every Fridays edition of my city newspaper, but I need more sources online.