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CHIP Loan Is Right For You

A SPONSORED FEATURE: There are several loan options available to homeowners over 55. However, understanding the best fit for your specific needs requires some careful consideration.

Trillium grant awarded to Burl-Oak Theatre

Burl-Oak Theatre Group receives a $76,700 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Visitors to the FYI Show May 25 at the Royal Botanical Gardens will be treated to a segment of the latest presentation by Burl-Oak, the comedy Kitchen Witches.

Editor's Blog: Reflections on the Gordie Howe movie

When Gordie came to Toronto with the Aeros it was a grand event for a busload of North Bayites.

Streisand to play Israel for the first time

Streisand's first concerts in Israel this June will be backed by a 60-piece orchestra and will feature duets with her son Jason Gould, sister Roslyn Kind and special guest trumpeter Chris Botti.

Bill Hay retires, Pat Quinn chosen next Hockey Hall of Fame chair

Pat Quinn takes over as chair of Hockey Hall of Fame board

Sky Train from Phoenix airport to 44th Street opens April 8

The electrically powered, automated PHX Sky Train will operate 24-hours a day, 365 days a year.

BOB'S BLOG Bird of the Month: red-bellied woodpecker

The red-bellied woodpecker is slowly expanding its range northward in the Great Lakes region

BOB'S BLOG: Women's hockey in the '30s rivalled the men's for popularity

The best women's team ever was the Preston Rivulettes, who won Ontario Women’s Championships every year from 1931 to 1940, losing only two games in the decade.

BOB'S BLOG: Visit Scaterie Island, NS to see a real, live (hazardous) shipwreck

The MV Miner ran aground on Scaterie Island off Cape Breton on Sept. 20, 2011.

Canadian visits to Florida up 7% last year

3,562,000 Canadians visited Florida in 2012

BOB’S BLOG: Bird of the Month is the Great Gray Owl

The Great Gray Owl has been declared Bob’s Blog’s first Bird of the Month.

Snowbirds: Florida suspends requirement for International Drivers License

The Florida Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles has suspended the state’s recently enacted International Driving Permit requirement pending further study.

Forever Young Information

Canada's Adult Lifestyle Publication

Wonderful windows

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Mar 02, 2013 - 1 comments

Choosing new windows not as easy as it seems, with due consideration needed to directional exposure and many other factors.

Time stood still in bank line

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Mar 01, 2013 - 0 comments

Heads down, the tellers were oblivious to the milling crowd. They might well have been napping - click headline or photo

Food for lovers: a stimulating meal

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Feb 28, 2013 - 43 comments

Are Pomegranates and Oysters Sexual Stimulants? Casanova and Mme. Pompadour can’t be wrong

Steve Paikin: 20 years at TVO

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Feb 27, 2013 - 2 comments

As a newspaperman, he did it all — chased ambulances, wrote obituaries, covered city council. That eclecticism remains evident in what Paikin, 52, does today as anchor of TVO’s current affairs program, The Agenda with Steve Paikin - click headline or photo

Peggy Baker dance show launches tonight with 3 world premieres

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Entertainment Slideshow
Feb 27, 2013 - 6 comments

Stereophonic is a mixed bill of five multi-dimensional contemporary dance works choreographed by dance artist Peggy Baker

Florida history: Perched in Tallahassee’s Sun and Shade

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Feb 26, 2013 - 5 comments

...has often been described as The Other Florida...lush rolling hills, likened to the Seven Hills of Rome, and canopy roads lined by moss-draped patriarch oaks. The rich soil and four distinct seasons breed floral brilliance and natural vitality year-round - click headline or photo

Heart surgery breakthrough: Toronto surgeon Kevin Teoh

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Health, Heart & Stroke Slideshow
Feb 25, 2013 - 9 comments

“Heart surgery started in the fifties, so we’re talking about 60 years,” Teoh says. “That said, heart surgery is one of the most common operations in the world these days, due to the prevalence of heart disease. And, it’s amazing how much heart surgery has evolved over the 60 years.” click headline or photo

Way down south: Cost of living research hypes Costa Rica life

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Housing, Travel, Snowbirds Slideshow
Feb 24, 2013 - 7 comments

The report flagged the Grecia region in Costa Rica as a key location for low-cost, high-value real estate abroad - click headline or photo

RRSPs: What do you know?

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Feb 23, 2013 - 10 comments

Most people know the basics of RRSP holdings but wise investors take the time to dig more deeply - click headline or phtoo

eHarmony date was an eFailure

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Feb 22, 2013 - 1 comments

At that point, Gayane could imagine her friends telling her to leave immediately, but thoughts of her mom saying she should always go through with a commitment kept her seated... - click headline or photo