At 31, Tess has finally finished years of dental school and is pursuing her career as a dentist in Toronto — which offers the high yearly salary of $ 140,000 a year. She recognizes that it should be no problem saving up for a home with income like that, but currently her life is in […]
Families continue to grow despite the pandemic. But with continued financial uncertainty, it’s prudent for parents to plan for kid costs as carefully, and with as much flexibility, as possible. Here’s how to prepare financially. Don’t overdo it on the start-up costs for a new baby Preparing for the baby’s arrival is exciting, and this […]
Janine, a 23-year-old undergrad student, is finally on her last year of post-secondary school. Working part-time at her university, making around $ 430 a month, she knows she has a lot of ground to make up when it comes to paying off her student debt when she graduates. “I am graduating next year, and I […]
Residents in the Jane and Finch area say their community has lost its heart. A fire ripped through Firgrove Learning and Innovation Community Centre (FLICC) last week, leaving kids without a place to gather and organizers scrambling to keep programs running. The space is a non-profit community centre that opened in 2008. Now, those who loved the facility are […]
By Andrew Todhunter Thomas Johnson was curious. How much Native American ancestry did he have? A software developer and former US Army medic from Stockton, California, he grew up in the northwest corner of Indiana. “Where I grew up, there’s a belief that everyone from that part of the country has some percentage of Native […]
Brian Stemmle doesn’t want his 11-year-old twin girls to follow in his footsteps. He doesn’t want them to experience the pain he did as a World Cup skier. Nor does he want to go through the pain his parents did more than 30 years ago. The 53-year-old former downhill ski racer is famous for a terrifying […]
When Shaho Shahbazpanahi went to check in on the home of his close friends while they visited Iran, no one could have predicted they would never return — and that he would bear the responsibility of figuring out what to do with the pieces of their lives left behind. Razgar Rahimi, Farideh Gholami and their three-year-old son, Jiwan Rahimi, were about […]
It was a phone call from relatives of a Toronto couple murdered years before in Florida that caused the children of Barry and Honey Sherman to hire a criminal lawyer and retired cops, launching a private investigation that officially ended in Toronto Monday. The Shermans were told in that phone call two years ago that […]
A man accused of killing two men and injuring a third outside a Toronto apartment building appeared in court on Sunday as family members of his alleged victims wept openly in the courtroom. Denzil Kemoy Williams, 33, of Toronto, has been charged with two counts of first degree murder and one count of attempted murder. […]
THORNHILL Location: 80 Franklin Ave., Centre St. and Bathurst St. Asking price: $ 2,199,999 Size: over 3,500 sq. ft., plus about 1,000 sq. ft. finished basement Lot: 40-by-114 feet, two-car attached garage, private drive Taxes: $ 9,418 (2018) Bedrooms: 5 plus 1 Bathrooms: 5 This five-bedroom, 1984-built home had a second-storey addition built about 10 […]