The Ontario Real Estate Association says house prices are becoming a determining factor in where people choose to live and a majority under 45 have considered leaving the province. torstar.co/5KTx50FuREz
An online poll of 2,000 Ontario residents for the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) shows 45 per cent of potential buyers 18 to 29 years old have considered moving out of the province in search of more affordable housing. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
In the Toronto region, 26 per cent of all the residents polled have thought about moving in the last year. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
The findings by Abacus Data underscore that a housing affordability crisis will be part of the COVID fallout going forward, said OREA CEO Tim Hudak. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
“It has come to such a point that so many talented Ontarians are considering moving out of our province to find a home in another one,” said Hudak, former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
More than half — 56 per cent — of Ontario would-be homeowners have given up or are pessimistic that they will ever own a home. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
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Around 160 unmarked graves found at a B.C. residential school, the Penelakut Tribe says. Sexual abuse, suicides and an escape that led to drowning by students have also been recorded there. thestar.com/news/canada/20…
Penelakut Island is 557 hectares of land surrounded by water. Two sisters sent to live at the former residential school on the island attempted to escape in 1959 by swimming, they drowned.
The discovery adds to a tragic tally across the country, slowly painting a more complete picture of the deaths that occurred as children were forcibly removed from their home communities and made to live in these institutions. thestar.com/news/canada/20…
The CN Tower, streetcar tracks and colourful Chinatown are all seen in Disney and Pixar's new animated film #TurningRed voiced by Canada's own @IamSandraOh and Oscar-winning director of "Bao," Domee Shi.
NEW: Green Party execs consider pulling $250K from leader’s election campaign funding. The Star has also learned that former Green Leader Jim Harris urged the party to revoke the funding in an email sent to top officials on June 15. @aballinga has more: thestar.com/politics/feder…
In that email, which was obtained by the Star and is addressed to top ranking officials in the party, Harris argues that federal council should remove Paul as leader.
Harris declined to comment on “internal Green party issues” when the Star contacted him this week, but stressed that he is not a member of the party’s federal council himself.
Thousands of AstraZeneca doses are going to waste in this country, at a time when other nations face critical vaccine shortages in their battle against COVID-19. torstar.co/azmt50FuRmX
Fully one-third of the AstraZeneca doses distributed to Prince Edward Island, for example, have gone to waste.
With Canadian demand for AstraZeneca receding, the federal government has no plan in place to redistribute domestically or internationally those doses whose expiration date looms. thestar.com/news/canada/20…
More police on TTC could mean more racial profiling, warns human rights watchdog dlvr.it/S3bWyY
The transit agency’s plan to boost police presence for employee and passenger safety comes after a rise in assaults. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
“As years of high-profile incidents have demonstrated, police presence... does not necessarily equal more safety for members of marginalized and vulnerable communities,” chief commissioner Ena Chadha wrote in an open letter dated July 7 to the TTC CEO thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
Among crucial swing voters, Jagmeet Singh and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are described as optimists by more than 70% of those surveyed, compared to just 50% for O’Toole. thestar.com/politics/polit…
“Today, Mr. Singh is arguably the most popular national political leader,” the poll report states, “with 38 per cent saying they have a positive view of him, while 26 per cent have a negative view.” thestar.com/politics/polit…