The downtown core businesses can set up small displays — tables, booths or racks — outside of their businesses during the Wednesday Market at no cost in order to capitalize on the increased traffic on market days by showcasing their wares. A successful farmers’ market is a market that satisfies not only the needs of […]
In 2007, Toronto renter Jeremy Martin was working in a mailroom and checking out the east end of Toronto as a place to put down roots. With the average price of a house or condo declining for two months in a row, realtors are reporting fewer showings, bully offers and bidding wars. But for those […]
Prices were still climbing on a yearly basis last month — up 15 per cent over April 2021, according to the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board on Wednesday. The Bank of Canada hiked its overnight rate from 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent in March, then doubled it again to one per cent on […]
A growing number of advisers and a few major financial firms like Fidelity Investments have begun to include bitcoin as a recognized asset class in mainstream portfolios. The most that can be said is that buying bitcoin can make sense in certain situations provided you accept the risks and don’t invest too much. A key […]
As the Star’s housing editor, I began our search for a home last spring with what I thought were realistic expectations. We did have some lingering student debt and a car lease. We crunched the numbers and determined we had a budget of $800,000 — roughly $200,000 less than the average home in Toronto at […]
The first block of Bitcoin has a message embedded, “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for bank.” This is a newspaper headline referring to the British government bailout of banks after the 2008 Global financial crisis. An old yoga maxim states that “We become that which we hate.” It seems that, in […]
In Jamaica, the more you can put on your resumé the better, but that’s not so in Canada. …Read the full story
The consultation period on the changes ends Tuesday, around the same time Truss will start unveiling 15 new drinks available to purchase this spring and summer. Yet cannabis flower remains the top seller by a significant margin, netting about 49 per cent or more than $195 million in sales in Ontario between October and December […]
Currently, the phase one of the policy is completed. The next steps will be to determine where cannabis facilities can be operated within the township; which lands are best to use for this industrial facility; what are the zoning standards needed for these facilities; the implementation of cannabis licenses; and more. Commercial cannabis is most […]
Last week, the province’s interim public health director, Dr. In the city’s financial district, Pudong, the barriers — either thin metal sheets or mesh fences — were put up in several neighbourhoods under a local government directive, according to Caixin, a Chinese business media outlet. …Read the full story
The current mania surrounding digital currencies is a perfect fit for this particular stage of terminal capitalism. It very clearly isn’t: nearly every major economic catastrophe of the neo-liberal age — including the Great Recession — has been caused by deregulation and speculation. Unlike cryptocurrencies, the Canadian dollar has never lost 10 per cent of […]
But the hard reality is that home prices will continue to rise, and buying or renting a house or apartment probably won’t get any easier through 2024, says Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. Tenants will also continue to struggle. The Housing Outlook forecasts a range of prices for major markets across the country through 2024. […]
According to administration, the county received seven responses from the community in support of the Gleichen retailer and 14 against, after circulating the permit application to the community. “We’re aware that we have significant historical and current concerns in the community of Gleichen. Link clarified she was not opposed to a cannabis operation, recognizing the […]
BLOOMFIELD, N.J. “It’s pretty amazing, exciting and if I get pulled over on the way home and I’m ever asked if I have any drugs in the car now I’m allowed to say only this,” Barrows said, holding up the canister of marijuana flower he had just purchased. Hagan Seeley, 23, said he had just […]
To mark 4/20, the day that celebrates cannabis culture worldwide, we spoke to the owners of three Toronto pot shops. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, the body that regulates the sale of cannabis in this province, has received more than 2,000 applications for retail store authorizations since 2019. He’s a Chassid, a subsect […]
“It was such a strong first quarter beyond what we had anticipated,” said Royal LePage Real Estate Service CEO Karen Yolevski. Among 62 markets surveyed in the report, only Thunder Bay showed a slight dip of .2 per cent in housing prices. “It is growth upon growth and sometimes you forget that it’s growing and […]
In the largest study tracking SARS-CoV-2 RNA in feces and COVID-19 symptoms, scientists at California’s Stanford University found that about half of infected patients shed traces of the virus in their waste in the week after infection and almost 4% patients still emit them seven months later. “It raises the question that ongoing infections in […]
The two-bedroom home at Dundas and Sumach streets that they share with their six-year-old son, Gabriel, is near schools, transit, grocery stores, daycares, barbershops, banks and restaurants. It was an acknowledgment of how, in less than a generation, buying a home has gone from a financially challenging but relatively common milestone, to a pipe dream […]
