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An international panel headed by no less than three sitting English lords and comprising architects, designers, writers, advertising and public relations people, real estate developers and other industry experts has selected a Toronto building as its Best International Residential High-rise Development of 2014. The building is One Bloor, a project of Great Gulf, now rising… Continue Reading
The thing about debt is, as long as you can afford to pay it, it can be a good thing. If consumers had no access to credit, household consumption would fluctuate wildly, causing a range of problems in the wider economy. In Canada, the level of household debt is now at a record-high level. Statistics… Continue Reading
Global technology company Ericsson says that increased connectivity is something people, especially children, want and expect today. A world in which everything is connected through the Internet, and information-sharing can even be done by some form of technology-assisted telepathy, is the world we are moving rapidly towards. But just because “everyone is doing it” does… Continue Reading
Falling oil prices will give Ontario the boost it needs to lead the country in economic growth in 2015, says the Royal Bank of Canada. This year Ontario “took a step” toward greater growth as exports picked up at an impressive rate, consumers spent more, and the housing market flourished. All of that was enough… Continue Reading
Swedish communications technology multinational Ericsson released a list of ten consumer trends that it says will dominate in 2015. The company, which owns a large share of the world’s mobile network infrastructure market, releases an annual report on these trends from its ConsumerLab, which conducts global research to determine what people are thinking about technology.… Continue Reading
Christmas and party: the words go together like scotch and soda, gin and tonic, wine and cheese, egg and nog. Unfortunately (for those not included, anyway) bringing together a lot of merry people, free-flowing booze and lively party music can create noise. As has been observed for at least two millennia now, people often become… Continue Reading
Chinese Canadians between thirty-five and forty-four years of age who earn more than $100,000 a year had better be more careful with their credit cards. Consumer research provider Mintel found that persons to whom any one of those three demographic markers applies were more likely to have been victims of credit fraud in the last… Continue Reading
A few days before Ontario’s Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk released her assessment of the government’s overall performance over the past fiscal year, the president and CEO of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, Allan O’Dette, wrote a piece in the Huffington Post in which he expressed an opinion about the funding of transit and transportation. How,… Continue Reading
At last! After a lifetime of putting up with higher prices here than they pay in the US, Canadians could be about to get some fairness. No longer will we have to bite the proverbial bullet as we pay $32,000 for a car that costs $18,000 in the US. Never mind that that car was… Continue Reading
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