Have you heard about Kizmeet.com yet? It’s a new twist on a dating service and it recently launched in Toronto. Plans to expand to other cities are already in the works. Instead of placing your profile and photo on a website and hoping to hook up with the “right person” this website operates on the premise that you’ve already seen the right person but don’t know how to find them. Or, you may not even know their name. All over the world the rallying cry of singles is that they don’t know how to meet other single people. Or if they see someone that appeals to them, they don’t know how to approach them. It becomes a lost opportunity.

Kizmeet.com has different categories where you may have met someone – bars, clubs, & dining, coffee shops, gyms, markets & shopping, concerts & stadiums, outdoors, on the move, college campus, miscellaneous – and gives you the ability to post a message to that person in the hopes that they will recognize themselves and reply to you.

 
To learn more about the service follow the link below.

http://www.kizmeet.com/missed-connections/toronto/

 
Aren’t you curious enough to have a look? Will you post? Would you answer?

The Steelback Brewery of Tiverton, Ontario was not exactly a household name until today. They have now been officially named the new title sponsor for the Toronto Grand Prix which will now be called The Steelback Grand Prix of Toronto. The race is revving up to go from July 6-8 in Toronto. This is a huge drawing card for the city with over 130,000 fan expected to attend the spectacle. This sponsorship represents an enormous financial commitment for the brewery. They’ve made it clear that they are planning to be in it for the long haul.

The Steelback Brewery brews 11 brands of premium beers – Steelhead Draught, Copperhead Pilsener, Bruce County Wild, Steelback Thunder, Steelback Silver,  Steelback Red, Tiverton Bear Honey Brown, Tiverton Bear Dark Lager, Chain, Link Light, and Tango. They currently distribute their beers in Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. Distribution in Quebec should begin in the near future. The Steelback Brewery is the first in Canada to use unbreakable bottles and large format cans with body-sleeve labels. To learn more about the Steelback Brewery follow the link below.

http://www.steelbackbrewery.com/

For full details on the Toronto Grand Prix follow the link to the official site.

http://www.grandprixtoronto.com/

Are you a Grand Prix fan? Do you think that the Steelback Brewery is a good fit for the race? Or you just relieved that a sponsor stepped up to the plate?

Calling all mobile users! Finally we’ll be free from our wireless providers who have been holding us hostage with our phone numbers. It used to be that the numbers that we were assigned had to stay behind if we changed carriers. So, many of us put up with poor plans and bad service in order to keep our phone numbers. After all, in the last number of years more and more of us are relying on our mobiles. In fact many of us have given up our land lines and gone strictly mobile. For many changing mobile numbers would have also represented a considerable expense in addition to the incredible inconvenience. We have our mobile numbers printed on our stationary and on our business cards. Now, not only can we change carriers, but we can switch the numbers from mobile to land line and land line to mobile. Hopefully now the carriers will have to actually work hard to keep our business and start to come up with better service, more competitive pricing, and better value. What a concept! To read more about this follow the link below.

http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/191289

Will you be changing carriers now that you can keep your phone number?

In spite of the fact that all reports are that the housing market in Toronto is cooling off, the price of houses just boggle the mind! Homes in Swansea, Roncesvalles, and Parkdale now have an average price of $642,269 and the Scarborough Bluffs homes are averaging $350,580.

In case you thought that it would be easier to get into the real estate market by purchasing a condo, think again. The average price of a condo in

Hoggs Hollow, York Mills, and the Bridle Path is $496,350. Yorkville, the Annex, Summerhill, and South Hill condos average $492,861. It does appear that relative bargains can be had in Humber Heights, Kingsview Village, and Richview where the average price is just under the $200,000 mark. Amazingly, there is great demand for condos in the million dollar range.

To read more about the real estate market in Toronto follow the link below.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/toronto/story.html?id=3fc149c9-d373-40ba-af43-405af7aae646

For more information on new homes and condos in Toronto follow the link below.

http://www.newhomesandcondos.com/default.asp?M=Magazine&MID=1

Do you own a home in the GTA? If so, are you planning to stay in your home or sell and upgrade or downsize? Are you a condo owner looking to move into a home? How have the real estate prices affected you? If you are a renter, do you feel that you will have the ability to get into the real estate market in the GTA?

Desperate times demand desperate measures. In an attempt to get deadbeat parents to pay child support the Ministry of Community and Social Services in Ontario has set up a website called www.goodparentspay.com in the hopes that it will assist with the collection of child support payments by means of embarrassment and humiliation. This is in essence an “Ontario’s Most Wanted” list of deadbeat parents. Profiles including photos are posted on the website and your help is asked in helping to locate these deadbeat parents. There will be up to 25 photos of deadbeat parents at any one time and their photographs and profiles will immediately be removed as soon as they contact the office. There are currently over 180,000 active cases of deadbeat parents in Ontario with over 1 billion dollars owing in child support. In order to qualify for the “Hall of Shame”, you must have not paid child support for 6 months and all efforts to find you have been tried and failed by the Family Responsibility Office.

To read more about this follow the link below.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2007/02/19/website-ontario.html?ref=rss