My home is on the market and we’d like to have an open house. What should we do to prepare for it? With warmer weather upon us, open-house signs are starting to pop up more frequently. It’s one of the signs that we’re heading into the busy spring real estate market. March is also […]
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More than one way to insulate a house
Having less-than-ideal attic insulation is, essentially, another way of burning money. Chances are you know this, and have packed your uppermost level like a sardine can full of insulation. But that may still not be enough. “No matter how much insulation you add to the attic, if you don’t have a proper vapour barrier […]
Toronto Homeowners Get $8,500 Richer Every Month, While Condo Owners Get The Shaft
Forget working. The real way to accumulate wealth is to buy a single-family house in Toronto, and wait. OK, that’s bad advice. But given what’s been going in Toronto’s housing market, you can be forgiven for coming to a conclusion like that. If you own an average single-family home in Toronto, your net worth […]
New Minnesota research links low income, diabetes
Low-income adults in Minnesota are much more likely to develop diabetes than people with higher incomes, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. New research shows that 13 percent of working-age Minnesotans who earn less than $35,000 annually have diabetes. That compares to a diabetes rate of just 5 percent for earners who make […]
‘Millions’ of Android mobes vulnerable to new Stagefright exploit
A group of Israeli researchers reckon they’ve cracked the challenge of crafting a reliable exploit for the Stagefright vulnerability that emerged in Android last year. In a paper [PDF] that’s a cookbook on how to build the exploit for yourself, they suggest millions of unpatched Android devices are vulnerable to their design, which bypasses […]