In a banquet hall in north Toronto, a condominium-sales event is generating the kind of frenzy more often seen on a trading-room floor. Michael Wekerle, former Bay Street trader, technology investor, Dragons' Den judge and now real-estate mogul, steps up to a podium in front of about 1,600 people to make his pitch. Waterloo, with its two universities and a...

Mississauga residents are permitted to welcome the year of the monkey in with fireworks during Chinese New Year celebrations on Monday, February 8. During a City Council meeting on October 28, a temporary exception was made to the City's fireworks-related by-laws. The approved exception allows fireworks to be set off on holidays including Chinese New Year. This exception is in...