TORONTO – The housing market in the Greater Toronto Area has no peace: in the month of July just ended, sales fell by 47% compared to the same period last year and by 24% compared to last June. (more…)
TORONTO – In March, Toronto saw a slight decline in the average selling price of homes. This is an element in contrast to the trend, since according to data from the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB), in general the market warms up as spring approaches.
L’ANFE, l’Associazione Nazionale Famiglie degli Emigrati, prende parte al progetto Felicita Back Home per la rigenerazione del piccolo borgo di Settefrati (nella foto sopra, da https://en.wikipedia.org) e della Val Comino, attraverso nuovi legami fra i discendenti e le comunità italiane all’estero e la comunità dei residenti italiani.
TORONTO – It is a deep crisis that the home care sector is going through. During the Covid-19 pandemic there has been an unprecedented flight of personnel to other parts of the health system. “We have literally lost over 3,000 nurses, qualified therapists and personal support workers,” said Sue VanderBent, CEO of Home Care Ontario, which represents home care providers in Ontario, “and this is very bad news for Ontario residents who are receiving home care because now the number is so small that many people are left waiting at home for a nurse or therapist or PSW who will not arrive.” (more…)
Radio Maria Canada (RMC) will host their inaugural open house on Wednesday October 13 between 10:00 am-5:00 pm and invites the community to come and visit. RMC’s new home is located at 4 Director Court (#105) in Woodbridge, after 25 years of broadcasting from their Toronto office at 1247 Lawrence Ave. West.
TORONTO – The question is: how many Canadians are still stuck in Afghanistan? The federal government will not disclose it. “Security reasons”. “Due to the security situation in Afghanistan, Global Affairs does not disclose the number of Canadians registered in the Canadian overseas registration database (Roca),” reads an e-mailed statement from a Global Affairs Canada (Gac) spokesperson to Global News, on Sunday night. And, above all, it is unknown if, how and when all these people (and with them the 20,000 Afghans that the government announced on Friday that it wants to welcome) will be able to “land” in Canada. (more…)
In Ontario nursing homes seniors are dying again. A resident of The Village of Tansley Woods Long-Term Care Home who had contracted Covid-19, the Delta variant to be precise, did not make it. (more…)
According to the latest information just released by the Canadian Real Estate Association, home sales in April fell by 12.5% compared to March, which in turn observed record increases. (more…)
Yesterday I had a long conversation with my dear friend Tom.

Tom is one of the most distinguished Polish community activists in Canada, (more…)
TORONTO – It’s a report pointing the finger in various directions that the Ontario Long-Term Care Commission has presented to the Ontario government. (more…)
According to TRREB – the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board, house prices in Toronto continued to rise in March and sales almost doubled – compared to the same month a year earlier when everything was shutting down at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. (more…)