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Toronto home prices likely to be hot again in 2020 after 4 per cent increase last year

Resale home prices rose by 4 per cent in the Greater Toronto Area in 2019, according to the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) — and prices will continue to rise into 2020 unless there’s an increase in the housing supply, the board predicts. The price increase was in line with ...

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Toronto has a Piano Staircase and it Works!

You’ve seen the giant piano in Big (and in fact, at Toronto’s FAO Schwarz) but what about a functioning piano staircase? Metro Hall has become home to one. You’d think a staircase that makes sounds would inspire a ton of social media activity, but the main indication they exist seems to lie in ...

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McGill University offers free online financial literacy course ‘for everybody’

McGill University campus is seen Tuesday, June 21, 2016 in Montreal. To help Canadians better understand how to manage their personal finances, McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management has collaborated with RBC Future Launch and the Globe and Mail to develop a free online financial literacy course. (Paul Chiasson/THE CANADIAN ...

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