There is no doubt about it, selling a house is an art. While you may be prepared to live with a certain amount of clutter or grime on a day-to-day basis, when it comes to selling, only the highest standards ...
Read More »Toronto home sales in 2014 rise 6.7% year over year from 2013
Toronto Real Estate Board President Paul Etherington announced that Greater Toronto REALTORS(R) reported 92,867 residential sales through the TorontoMLS system in 2014, including 4,446 in December. The calendar year 2014 sales result represented a 6.7 per cent increase over the ...
Read More »9 good reasons why we need public review of a Bruce Nuclear deal
Angela Bischoff — The Ontario Power Authority and Bruce Power are secretly negotiating a multi-billion dollar deal to rebuild four aging reactors at the Bruce B Nuclear Station. Here are 9 good reasons why Premier Kathleen Wynne should send any ...
Read More »Is safely generated electricity from nukes a pipe-dream or doable?
Corneliu Chisu — We are now at the cusp of the next step (in nuclear power), the commercial application of the closed fuel cycle using fast-neutron reactors. We need to implement a closed fuel cycle as a logical development of ...
Read More »Seeds of Destruction: Hijacking of the world’s food system
As F. William Engdahl wrote in Death of the Birds and the Bees Across America: Birds and bees are something most of us take for granted as part of nature. The expression “teaching about the birds and the bees” to ...
Read More »November home sales rise over same month in 2013
Jason Mercer — Toronto Real Estate Board President Paul Etherington announced that Greater Toronto Realtors reported 6,519 residential transactions through the TorontoMLS system in November 2014. This result was up by 2.6 per cent compared to 6,354 sales reported in ...
Read More »She gives back by ringing her bell: ‘Everyone’s in their happy spirit!’
Dennis Hanagan – Events that happened more than 80 years ago made Garden District resident Kara Kieferle decide she wanted to be a Salvation Army bell-ringer this year. “When my grandfather was a young man growing up on the prairies in ...
Read More »SLMarket Neighbourhood BIA previews new master plan
Eric Morse – The St Lawrence Market Neighbourhood Business Improvement Area (SLBIA) held a well-attended annual general meeting on Oct. 28 at the Houston Ave. Bar & Grill. Executive Director Al Smith introduced DTAH, the architectural and planning firm chosen ...
Read More »Elephantine tasks and tusks will confront John Tory
John Sewell – When John Tory walks through the doors into the mayor’s office, will he notice the elephants in the room? Peering through the windows of the office during the recent election campaign he apparently didn’t spot them, but maybe ...
Read More »Island airport ‘plans’ are a problem list for impossible expansion
Brian Iler — The Toronto Port Authority on Dec. 2 released its new “Master Plan” for the Island Airport. This isn’t so much a “plan” as a list of unsolvable problems. Unlike most airports that have ample space on the edge ...
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