TORONTO – Those who have had their house for sale for months and have not yet managed to sell it can probably breathe a sigh of relief: the market is recovering, because recent interest rate cuts have made mortgages more accessible and sustainable and therefore co-buying a house is no longer impossible (for people with a normal salary and without “treasures” in the bank) as it was until a few months ago.
TORONTO – Named to the Variety 500 list of the global media industry’s most influential figures in 2020, and recognized by Forbes and The Financial Times as one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the last decade, Italian-Canadian film Producer Andrea Iervolino recently announced he is starting The Andrea Iervolino Company.
OTTAWA – The premier of Quebec, François Legault, has asked the federal government to create “waiting zones” for asylum seekers, as in France: Canada, according to him, should draw inspiration from the European country and the “waiting zones” could be located near airports or in other parts of the territory. →
MONTREAL – A group of 23 bilingual municipalities has asked the Quebec Superior Court judge Silvana Conte to suspend several parts of the province’s 2022 language reform, arguing that the application of the law – which overbearingly imposes French – will cause them “serious and irreparable damage”. →
TORONTO – Lamborghini loyalists have etched into their repertoire of Ferrari jabs the famous words of Frank Sinatra: “You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody”. It’s probably no coincidence that Sinatra also said, “the best revenge is great success” – an adage that fits the Lamborghini/Ferrari mythos as well as any. Referencing of course the alleged insult Enzo Ferrari hurled at Ferruccio Lamborghini before the latter dedicated himself to building “a GT car without faults, the perfect car”.
