Does the GTA Need A Year-Round Summer Theme Park? Image

Does the GTA Need A Year-Round Summer Theme Park?

Image via marbleLIVE YouTube videoTGIS! Thank goodness it’s spring (even though it doesn’t feel like it). After such a long and frigid winter, it’s what we’re all thinking, including Toronto Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly who says that a theme park designed to

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How Much Money Did the Average Canadian Household Save in 2013? Image

How Much Money Did the Average Canadian Household Save in 2013?

Recently, Bank of Montreal (BMO) released its second annual BMO Household Savings Report. Based on the polling of 1,002 Canadians conducted by Pollara, BMO highlights the average savings of Canadian households in 2013, how much we plan to save in 2014,

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Beat the Heat: What does the summer hold for GTA housing? Image

Beat the Heat: What does the summer hold for GTA housing?

The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) has already seen a few days above 30 degrees and families are opening their pools, so we think it’s safe to say that summer weather is here to stay. For the month of June, we will be featuring summer themed blog posts on

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More than 80,000 Canadians will be doing this on June 30 Image

More than 80,000 Canadians will be doing this on June 30

According to moving company, Two Men and a Truck, the weekend of June 30 is the busiest moving time of the whole year. Every year, 4.4 million of the 37 million Canadians move into a new home (or roughly 1.5 million families).

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Does your election boil down to Chow vs Vaughan? Image

Does your election boil down to Chow vs Vaughan?

There’s a whole big country out there, but one of the most hotly contested races in the upcoming election is right here in the GTA, in our own Spadina-Fort York riding.Encompassing more than 80,000 people and most of the downtown core, the riding is

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Home renovations outside the box: garage designs done easy! Image

Home renovations outside the box: garage designs done easy!

Garage designs can solve your organization issues and still incorporate your other needs.

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Dig-to-Done: B.streets Topping off Soon Image

Dig-to-Done: B.streets Topping off Soon

This month’s coverage of B.streets Condos’ construction progress is pretty special. On July 29, 2013, we sat down with Construction Manager Chris Hawkins, Lindvest’s Director, Sales & Marketing, Joseph Alberga, and Sandro Zanini, a Senior Associate

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How did Chinatown Come To Be? Image

How did Chinatown Come To Be?

Many of the neighbourhoods in Toronto have worn several hats throughout the city’s history. Yorkville was formerly a bohemian neighbourhood and popular hangout for some of Canada’s greatest talent (including Joni Mitchell and Neil Young). Kensington

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What does the new mortgage rule mean for first-time buyers?

On October 17, 2016, most first-time buyers will have less borrowing power when it comes to being approved for a mortgage. Whenever less than 20% is put down on a home, the mortgage needs to be insured. The new rule states that every insured mortgage

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Did We Get It Wrong in the Last Election? Image

Did We Get It Wrong in the Last Election?

The last municipal election, which saw Rob Ford elected to the Mayor’s chair, highlighted the differences in needs between residents of the downtown core and those they considered the troglodytes in the former boroughs.In 2010, Rob Ford garnered 47

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