4 h. ago A completely abandoned Toronto home is still somehow selling for $8 million

The average price of a house sold on the Bridle Path in Toronto is over $16 million.It's a neighbourhood of excess wealth, ostentatious mega-mansions and the 0.1 per cent of society. But in and amongst all those over-the-top houses, you'll find 48 The Bridle Path, a 103- by 260-foot piece of land with a vine covered bungalow that has sat abandoned since 2017, if not longer.  Construction happening across the street. Normally when plots of land become available in the Bridle Path, it's just a matter of time before a cavalcade of construction workers arrive to build the next mansion. However, that's not what happened at all at 48 The Bridle Path.In 2017, the property sold for $6,100,000 after just a week on the market. But less than a year later, it was back up for sale for $7,995,000. It took two years and four tries before it finally sold for $6,500,000 in 2019. Then 48 The Bridle Path just sat there for years.Ove...

Economics

4 h. ago La vraie fortune d’Elon Musk ou quand les jeux vidéo deviennent réels

À lire parmi notre sélection quotidienne de lettres rédigées par nos lecteurs.

Other

4 h. ago Miser sur le Québec pour contrer l’autoritarisme et ordonner la démondialisation

Il peut ouvrir la voie au ralliement de l’UE et du Canada, formant de solides étriers pour guider la mondialisation.

Other

5 h. ago Here’s how PC win in snap Ontario vote stacks up against elections past

The Progressive Conservatives have won a third consecutive majority government in Thursday’s snap vote — a feat accomplished for the first time in more than 50 years of Ontario elections. The last time a party pulled off three or more consecutive majorities in Ontario was a string of eight mandates the PCs won between 1945 […]

Politics

6 h. ago LILLEY: Doug Ford’s gamble paid off in a third majority PC government

Doug Ford took a gamble on calling an early election and it paid off. Despite criticism from the opposition parties that he had called an unnecessary and self-serving election — both of those claims are true — the voters who decided to show up rewarded Ford and his PC Party with his third majority government. […]

Politics

6 h. ago Chris Selley: Ontario’s Liberals and NDP failed miserably at the one job they had

Many Ontarians don't believe anyone can solve their biggest problems. They stuck with the devil they know

Economics

7 h. ago Stuart Culbertson: Canada, it's time for a serious dose of internal trade medicine

Opinion: The potential shock to Canada's economy posed by Trump’s proposed tariffs warrants at least an equivalent shock to our system of internal trade barriers.

Economics

8 h. ago Bell: Danielle Smith pitches a budget hoping to calm Albertans down

The Alberta budget tries to reassure Albertans the sky is not falling as Trump tariffs loom

Other

8 h. ago Bell: A tax cut, a doling out the dough budget — Smith will survive

The Alberta budget tries to reassure Albertans the sky is not falling as Trump tariffs loom

Economics

8 h. ago Bell: Surprise! Lefties don't like the Danielle Smith tax cut

The Alberta budget is not old-school conservative but it has a tax cut lefties don't like

Economics

9 h. ago B.C. NDP excuses on ER closures across the province wearing thin

Vaughn Palmer: Despite the NDP's 80 per cent boost to the health-care budget, the Opposition has recorded 1,407 closures in the past two years

Other

9 h. ago School support workers rally outside Alberta legislature as budget released inside

Striking education support workers marched through the streets of Edmonton and protested outside the legislature at the same time the Alberta budget was being tabled inside.

Society

9 h. ago Varcoe: 'Watershed moment for Alberta,' as province shifts from surpluses to string of budget deficits

'We're going to need to have hard conversations, as Albertans, about what we expect government to fund, the services that we want to see,' said Finance Minister Nate Horner

Other

9 h. ago Opinion: Time and distance make cargo airship transport viable

Cargo airships present a compromise in cost and speed between ships and airplanes that would bring all world markets “closer” in a logistical sense.

Sport

9 h. ago Mike Klassen: Vancouver’s bold, practical approach to addressing the housing crisis

Opinion: By creating market rental housing with income restrictions, the city ensures more middle-income residents can stay close to their jobs and communities

Other

10 h. ago Lorne Gunter: Alberta budget not bad, but it's not great, either

Almost exactly one year ago today, when UCP Finance Minister Nate Horner brought down his previous budget, I wrote that Budget 2024 was “not bad, but not great either.” Looking at Horner’s 2025 budget, I could probably just cut-and-paste last year’s column into this space and take the rest of the day off. Last year’s […]

Events

10 h. ago David Staples: Alberta budget brings ray of hope in a Canada gripped by fear

The tax cut comes after years of ever-increasing taxes of every kind, from nasty increases in carbon taxes to brutal rises in local property taxes, not to mention hammering from wicked inflation

Other

11 h. ago Telus offers hundreds of buyouts to workers across the country

VANCOUVER — For the second time this month, Telus is offering buyouts to hundreds of employees across the country. The telecom company said it’s offering “generous” buyout packages as part of the company’s push for more self-serve solutions. The United Steelworkers union says Telus has offered buyout packages to about 560 workers across the country. […]

Society

11 h. ago Russian cargo plane seized in Toronto could soon be owned by Canada

In June 2023, the federal government officially seized an aircraft that had been sitting on the tarmac at Toronto's Pearson International Airport since February 2022.

Transport

12 h. ago Are singles being singled out at tax time? Edmonton area experts weigh in

"The single tax is really a term used to basically say that singles have higher costs and are being impacted with those higher cost" 

Economics