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The Heat Is On

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Mix one part obsessed World Cup Soccer fans driving around town honking and waving flags from their cars, with one part traffic gridlock exacerbated by wrapping our financial core in concrete and barbed wire for the G20 summit, and then bake it under this week’s hot humid weather system! Voila,…
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Canstruction Food Raiser

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Canstruction® is the one of the most clever food charity programs globally! The 12th annual Toronto event is hosted at the Toronto Dominion Centre, and has raised almost 500,000 lbs of food for the Daily Bread Food Bank. Entries are being taken now for this year’s event. Check it out at the Canstruction®…
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The ‘Can’t Touch This’ Market

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Lately it’s been a challenge bringing buyers and sellers together to create a meeting of the minds when negotiating a real estate transaction. As the bidding wars diminish buyers are wanting to negotiate with sellers yet, after years of increasing property values, sellers are reluctant to let go of their properties for anything less…
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Reaching The Finish Line

College Street / Little Italy
Back in February, I began a conquest to get my residence organized. After years of haphazard searching for a particular sweater, book or tool (“I know it’s in this closet somewhere!”), I finally decided it was time to organize my life through and through. Not surprisingly it’s been a long…
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Summer Time Beef

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As summer rolls in with another warm breezy weekend (including a lashing night time thunder storm), by end of day Sunday my neighbourhood was filled with the sound of chatter, clinking glasses and the scent of steak grilling on the barbecue. Everyone is embracing their ‘summer rooms’, whether that be their patio, garden, deck…
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Don’t Be Too Revealing

College Street / Little Italy
When it comes to real estate, first impressions count. That’s why the expression ‘Curb Appeal’ has merit. In the freehold property market, as house hunters pull up in their car they’re already assessing the dwelling, the property environment, and the surrounding streetscape. In the condominium market, purchasers instantly gauge how…
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A Classic Wooden Boat

I spent my weekend boating up the west coast from Vancouver to Gibson's Landing, home of the TV show 'The Beachcombers'. The TV series, the longest-running dramatic series ever made for Canadian television, ran from 1972 to 1990. The café featured in the show, Molly's Reach, still survives today and…
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See Ya In Seattle

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We all know Seattle as the birthplace of Grunge, Starbucks and the place where Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks didn’t get any sleep. I also know it as the new home of my dear friend Rosalyn, who relocated from Toronto last year to shine at Microsoft. Arriving via the Clipper…
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Soya-nara College Street

College Street / Little Italy
Utopia Cafe 586 College Street 416-534-7751 Wednesday night was so warm everyone in my neighbourhood was out on the streets. Even at 9:30pm the patios were full, there were lines up at every gelati parlour (this is Little Italy, afterall), and the streets were filled with people strolling, cycling or driving with the top down.…
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