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Calling it "hoarding" doesn't seem right unless there are both high vacancy rates and strong demand. How often is that the case?

Currently? at least Vancouver, and possibly Toronto. I don't know about other markets. It's roughly 4.3% of Vancouver's housing stock[1]

Toronto has roughly 23% [2] of its for sale stock vacant, unfortunately there have been no openly published numbers on total vacancies.