Have you heard about the CYBF? The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) is a national non-profit organization dedicated to assisting young emerging entrepreneurs aged 18 to 39 start-up their businesses. CYBF provides pre-launch coaching, business resources, start-up financing, and mentoring to help them launch and grow their successful business. To learn more about what CYBF does, […]
Have difficulties managing your personal finances? Preet Banerjee, trained neuroscientist, racecar driver, and finance commentator shares five rules for taking charge of your money in his new book, Stop Over-Thinking Your Money. The five rules are as follows: 1. Disaster-proof your life 2. Spend less than you earn 3. Aggressively pay down high-interest debt 4. Read […]
Come join us tomorrow at North York Central Library for an informative session on Home ECOnomics. Led by a Certified Energy Advisor from Toronto Hydro, this workshop helps home owners understand how their homes tick. How much money do you loose every year to wasted home energy? Is your home efficient? Are fluorescent compact bulbs […]
Are you a first time home buyer? Are you looking to sell your property or leasing in the near future? If so, come join us at North York Central Library on Thursday, February 20, 2014 at 6:30pm in the Auditorium to learn everything there is to about buying, selling, leasing, and investing. In this […]
Do you know whether you are safe from identity theft? Want to learn about the best prevention strategies to deal with this crime? Join us at North York Central Library this Thursday, January 23rd at 6:30pm in the Auditorium for an information session to better understand fraud and learn how to protect yourself from being victims […]
Friends with Boy sby: Faith Erin Hicks Maggie has always been homeschooled. She’s been happily comfortable in her relationship with her mother and three adored older brothers. Now she’s enrolled in a public high school and she is terrified. Her brothers leave her to fend for herself but she manages to make some friends. But, […]
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. — St. Augustine
Beyond Bullets: A Photo Journal of Afghanistan by: Rafal Gerszak with Dawn Hunter Photojournalist Rafal Gerszak spent a year in Afghanistan with the American military documenting life on the front lines and gaining affection for the land and its people. He returned with a different focus: giving the Afghani people a voice for their stories […]
Do you stay up all night with books about the paranormal? Have you read through Twilight or The Vampire Diaries series more than once? Do you ever think of maybe writing your own vampire series? If so, this contest is right for you! Submit a comment explaining how the vampires in your series would be created and […]
I’ll Be Watching by: Pamela Porter Taking place in small town Saskatchewan during the Great Depression and written in blank verse, the story and images flow vividly and easily off the page. Four children experience the death of their beloved mother, the remarriage of their father to a Bible thumping wicked stepmother and his cruel […]