This is pretty cool. If you want to know how much it will cost you to purchase a family home around Toronto, the good people at SkyView Suites broke it down for you with a subway map. Keep in mind that we’re looking at places with three plus bedrooms, so much larger than many families …
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Like binge-watching your favourite shows online? It could be deadly. A new study has found that the long periods of inactivity associate with viewing episode after episode of a TV show raises the risk of death from a fatal blood clot in the lungs. The lung clot, officially known as a pulmonary embolism, usually starts …
I’ve been to Istanbul a couple of times. One of my best friends got married there and another got engaged (to my sister) in Taksim Square (to a band playing Brown Eyed Girl on tram car he hired for the event). We never felt unsafe. The events of recent days with a questionable coup attempt …
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So, you know when you’re scrolling through Facebook reading whatever, because you’re in line at the grocery store or you just can’t decide what to watch on Netflix, and you see all your friends’ endlessly opinionated political postings and you think “don’t you people have anything better to do?” The answer might just be no, …
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It turns out that there’s a pretty big discrepancy between what we believe we’re choosing to eat and what we’re actually putting in our bodies. The infographic below points out, for example, how when many of us in North America think we’re having breakfast, we’re actually having dessert. Many muffins, the default grab-and-go breakfast of …
That food you’re eating … it’s not what you think it is Read More »
Seriously Canada? I’m pretty happy to be in you most of the time. We’re pretty good to refugees, we have some very good restaurants, and we’re a stunningly safe place to live when compared to most of the rest of the world. But I just learned that, despite all our good things, we actually rank …
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Among the best career advice you will ever receive is to be flexible, to change with the market. Update your skills and go where the opportunities are. You greatly increase your chances of career success by moving from an area of high unemployment to one of labour shortage. Like all good advice that isn’t just …
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The news came out yesterday that the wildfires in Alberta that devastated the town of Fort McMurray earlier this year was Canada’s worst natural disaster ever. Well, in terms of costs anyway. The announcement came from the insurance industry, estimating losses to be over 3.5 billion Canadian dollars. The fires forced nearly 90,000 people to …
Woohoo! We’re number 2! Canadian women have the second biggest boobs in the world. This is according to a study in which researchers analyzed which nations have the women with the largest and smallest breasts. According to the Telegraph, they looked at data from nearly 400,000 women born in 108 countries, comparing the mean volume and …
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