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Author: Paul Welch
Publication Date: January 29, 2026 - 08:09
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Homes: Closing costs stress buyers
January 29, 2026
Even financially prepared Ontario homebuyers are being caught off-guard by the fine print of homeownership, new research from Ownright reveals. “The thing that stood out the most to me was the stark difference between how people felt going into the transaction versus when they were going through or had completed the transaction,” says Robert Saunders, […]
In a few days, when the Canadian men’s hockey Olympic team laces up their skates for their first game at the Milan–Cortina Games, there’ll be someone missing: Quebec players.
The province has traditionally supplied an average of four Quebec-born players per squad since the National Hockey League began allowing teams to send players to Olympic rosters. In 2010, at the Vancouver Olympics, when Canada won gold, all three goalies were Quebecers: Martin Brodeur, Marc-André Fleury, and Roberto Luongo.
In a historic first, since 1952, Canada’s twenty-five-man hockey delegation won’t have anyone...
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I’m lugging six twenty-litre blue jugs in the back of my truck to my permanent residence outside of Whitehorse, a dwelling without running water known as a “dry cabin.” These 120 litres will last myself and my partner—and our three...
February 9, 2026 - 06:29 | Trina Moyles | Walrus
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