Mary Gallagher— With Toronto City Council meeting tomorrow to give final approval to the City’s 2014 Budget, the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) is telling Councillors that the proposed budget’s reliance on the Toronto Land Transfer Tax poses risks and ...

Nicolas Garreau, a 35-year-old French entrepreneur, decided that love would be his unusual job, putting his imagination and his romance skills at the service of men wishing, like him, to amaze their loved one in Paris. Only one goal for ...

A research study by the Canadian Labour Congress shows that Corporate Tax Freedom Day occurs on January 29.”Governments have slashed corporate taxes so deeply that in 2012 companies paid their share of taxes to all levels of government for the ...

Dylan Penner — The Council of Canadians is expressing alarm over the hiring of a founder of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers to provide advice on the closure of the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA). “We are appalled that the ...

Last Spring my dog, Buddy, started chasing chipmunks. They would quickly escape into one of their holes in the ground, where he would dig for a few minutes, then give up. One day, a chipmunk ran into the mouth of ...

GlobalResearch.ca — Numerous models show that—while the ocean dilutes radiation—pockets and streams of concentrated radiation may still hit the West Coast of North America. West Coast residents are very concerned. Indeed, many local and state government officials have said that ...

Sonia Singh —The Ontario government will increase the minimum wage to $11 as far away as June.While this increase would recognize that wages have been frozen for four years, it still locks Ontario workers 16% below the poverty line.”For Premier ...

Dr. Ismail Salami — [Global Research] A five-minute audio message by al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri went viral on the internet in which he enjoins the rebels in Syria to end their infighting and focus their energies on battling against President ...

There are more than 200 restaurants city-wide participating in this 12th annual Winterlicious Prix Fixe promotion, from January 31 to February 13, the largest number to date. Three-course prix fixe lunch menus are priced at $15, $20 and $25, and ...

There is more to booking a cruise than meets the eye and a recent survey of Cruise Holidays agents offers a revealing list of things first-time cruisers should not forget to do – ranging from before they book to important ...