There are numerous renovation grants available to homeowners in the GTA. Ranging from a few hundred dollars to several thousand, programs are offered by different levels of government and partner organizations. Homeowners in the city of Toronto have a number of programs available and one such incentive is the Basement Flooding Protection Subsidy Program. […]
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Canadians like to drink more coffee than others in the world
It’s Friday morning at a Tim Hortons in downtown Toronto. The place is hopping with customers eager to get their caffeine fix. Yes, Canada loves its coffee, more so than most other countries in the world. Out of 80 countries, Canada ranked No. 1 in 2015 when tallying up how many litres of coffee per capita […]
Extra Weight May Have Greater Impact on Diabetes Than Heart Disease
In toronto health, carrying excess weight may have a greater impact on the risk for diabetes than it does on the risk for heart disease or early death, a new study has found. To look at the effect of obesity independent of genetics, Swedish researchers followed 4,046 pairs of identical twins whose average age […]
Add your mortgage lender in your big-reno team
The home renovators should consider the lending requirements of the of financial lenders first. Banks and other lenders don’t care about homey aesthetics, paint colours or kitchen fixtures. Their taste squarely revolves around whether a house that needs refinancing for a renovation is more or less livable, and not a construction site. Mortgage brokers explain that […]
How to Secure Your Facebook Timeline That You Prefer
There’s a lot of buzz about the new Facebook Timeline feature. The new Facebook timeline makes your profile look a lot more newspaper-like and lets you take a look down memory lane in an instant. Before the addition of the Facebook Timeline, you could only visit your Facebook past by clicking the “older entries” […]