August 2022

House values tumble and could drop faster as rates set to rise

CoreLogic’s head of research, Tim Lawless, said the sharp rises in values through the pandemic were being rapidly unwound. “It doesn’t look like it’s going to slow down any time soon. It’s not just the lift in interest rates but also the impact of inflation, so the fall is probably going to accelerate,” he said. …

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Sydney-Toronto reunion reunites friends, families in Whitney Pier

Bette Norman packed up and moved away from her hometown of Sydney, N.S., nearly five decades ago. Like many people who grew up in Cape Breton’s Whitney Pier neighbourhood, Norman and her husband headed to Ontario in the 1970s in search of steady work following the area’s industrial decline. “We always said we would keep …

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Ollie Hoare wins epic Commonwealth Games 1500m final for Australia

Jake Wightman gave his all in a Commonwealth 1500m final for the ages. This time, though, the familiar formula did not quite work as Ollie Hoare swooped at the last to win Australia’s first middle-distance gold at these Games since Herb Elliott in 1958. Hoare promised to buy the legendary Elliott, who is now 84, …

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