Demand for Toronto Real Estate Now Tighter Than in Manhattan: Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Desperation sets in for house hunters in Toronto’s red-hot market
“Dana Kayali is preparing for battle. Clutching a stack of home ads, the pension fund manager and her fiancé brave a swarm of about 30 people on a recent Saturday and step into the first of four open houses of the day. They’re all searching for what’s dawning on Kayali is a fantasy: a detached home in downtown Toronto for under $1 million.”
2. 19 asylum-seekers cross border in fierce Manitoba blizzard
“Two people were found Tuesday night and the other 17 were discovered huddled together shortly after sunrise in a carport at an old golf course.
“Winds were gusting up to 80 kilometres an hour overnight, which created a wind chill of -28 C. Visibility was so poor, highways in the area were closed until early Wednesday morning.”
3. Fewer women run big companies than men named John
“Among chief executives of S&P 1500 firms, for each woman, there are four men named John, Robert, William or James. We’re calling this ratio the Glass Ceiling Index, and an index value above one means that Jims, Bobs, Jacks and Bills — combined — outnumber the total number of women, including every women’s name, from Abby to Zara.”
+1: To mark women’s suffrage in Canada, women took all 338 seats of the House of Commons – Vice News
+1: The case for the women’s strike – N+1 Magazine
+1: Why isn’t Uber talking about the women’s strike? – FastCo
+1: “Motherhood is not a job. It feels like one, it looks like one, and God knows it’s harder than many jobs.” – The Outline
4. The invisible forces that warps your news feed
“Things we know to be true: John McCain is a maverick. The New England Patriots are cheaters. Apple can’t innovate without Steve Jobs. But wait a second. How do we actually ‘know’ these things? And what makes them ‘true’?”
+1: Breitbart’s honeymoon with establishment wing of Trump White House may be over – Business Insider
5. “I don’t have cancer (yet)”
“At 35, I learned from a genetic test that I’m especially likely to develop cancer in my lifetime. A year and a half later, I’m still figuring out how to live with that information.”
– Buzzfeed
