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Celebrity-backed home projects leave a trail of unhappy customers

Celebrity-backed home projects leave a trail of unhappy customers

Celebrities including Mike Holmes and former CFL player Graeme Bell make the pitch for renovations and custom home builds done right, but a long list of customers with home build and reno nightmares shows that even though these celebs make the pitch to trust them, there is little accountability when things go wrong.

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Should you stay or should you go? Canadians reconsider Cuba travel plans after advisory
Star

February 4, 2026

Should you stay or should you go? Canadians reconsider Cuba travel plans after advisory

Ask the travellers who keep going year after year, and…

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Ontario/Quebec

February 4, 2026

Jordan Omstead

Why a turtle die-off has this Ottawa researcher worried about warming winters

Grégory Bulté was snorkelling in the cold waters of Ontario’s…

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Business, Health, Ontario/Quebec, Social

February 4, 2026

Maan Alhmidi

Medical staff leave Kashechewan First Nation as parasite contaminates water

Medical staff have left a northern Ontario First Nation that…

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Justice, Ontario/Quebec

February 4, 2026

Teen charged with second-degree murder in death of infant in Port Rowan, Ont: police

PORT ROWAN — A teenager has been charged with murder…

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Business, Construction, Economy, Real Estate

February 4, 2026

Ian Bickis

Greater Toronto home sales, prices slide in January with more weakness ahead: TRREB

TORONTO — Greater Toronto Area home sales and price weakness…

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Sports

February 4, 2026

Hamilton Tiger-Cats sign veteran CFL middle linebacker Wynton McManis

HAMILTON — Wynton McManis wasn’t unemployed long. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats…

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Sports

February 4, 2026

Gemma Karstens-Smith

‘We were really starting to click there’: Leafs enter Olympic break on win streak

EDMONTON — Matthew Knies is of two minds when it…

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Mother of missing N.S. children ‘taking it day by day,’ say loved ones
Star

February 4, 2026

Mother of missing N.S. children ‘taking it day by day,’ say loved ones

Nine months after Lilly and Jack Sullivan vanished without a…

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Inside the Quebec YMCA offering transitional housing to homeless people after hospital stay
Star

February 4, 2026

Inside the Quebec YMCA offering transitional housing to homeless people after hospital stay

The YMCA and CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal launched “A Pathway to…

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