Did you know that Canada ranks #1 in the Global Competitiveness Report of having the lowest incidence of malaria? Not a surprise. Moncton REALTOR®, Larry Estabrooks, recently drew my attention to this report put out by the World Economic Forum. In it, Canada ranked 10th overall in terms of Global Competitiveness which is no small [...]
Sometimes life throws you little curves and yesterday, it was a curve BALL for me. I’ve always been intrigued by a few of the regular Canadian bloggers on a real estate site I frequent (ActiveRain) and in particular, Sylvie Conde in Toronto has always caught my attention. Just read her blog to see how unfailingly kind [...]
The dynamics of living in a small town are very different than living in a city. Ask any one of the thousands of people who have moved to Collingwood and area in the last several years and you’ll hear the same thing. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE tells me how friendly and helpful people are [...]
The internet has revolutionized the way we do business and for the most part, I think it’s a wonderful tool. What I can’t stand, though, is spam and the people who mine the web for email addresses or names. One of the things I do is to syndicate my listings to numerous sites such as [...]
Most of my friends tell me that I talk a lot and that I’m opinionated. They are right of course. When I think about it, I wrote columns for local magazines and newspapers going back almost 20 years ago. In one paper, they advertised my column by saying “Always Opinionated.” “Always Passionate.” I’d like to think [...]
For the last 9 days, our family has had a very direct experience with our local medical system and it occurred to me, that many people considering a move into the area may want to know more about the local conditions for health care. We have a very wide range of services that includes expanding [...]
In the Nipissing Ridge area of Craigleith, there is a road named Blueski George. I’ve often wondered how this unusual name came to be and recently, I found out. As I mentioned in a previous post, I had the good fortune of speaking with Mr. George Fleming who is the developer of that area. After [...]
Last week, I had a rather fascinating experience with how small our world really is. If you look down the right side of this blog, you’ll see a section called Canadian Real Estate Alliance. It is a collection of perhaps the most proliferous or well known Canadian real estate bloggers. It was started by Norm [...]
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