Chris Smith - South Simcoe, Caledon, King, Orangeville Real Estate

2012 ecoENERGY award winners SNEAK PREVIEW!!

Natural Resources Canada will announce the 2012 ecoENERGY winners at the Canadian International AutoShow coming soon to Toronto, but word has leaked out!

Highlights include:

Honda CR-Z (two-seater co-winner)

Chevrolet VOLT (compact winner)

Nissan LEAF (mid-size winner)

Hyundai SONATA (full-size winner)

Toyota PRIUS V (station wagon winner)

Ford ESCAPE HYBRID (special purpose vehicle winner)

Mazda 5 (minivan winner)

For a link to the complete article from autoblog.ca, click here

Two Steady Years in the Canadian Real Estate Market Forecasted by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), the Crown Corporation insures Canadian Mortgages.

CMHC calls for moderate growth in 2012, forecasting housing starts in the range of164,000 to 212,700 and sales of existing homes to be in the range of 406,000 to 504,500, and 2013 housing starts to be in the range of 168,000 to 219,300 with the resale market to be in the range of 417,600 to 517,400. Among key factors backing CMHC's prediction are low interest rates and a "moderately" expanding economy.

To read the complete article from the Business News Network or to see a video commentary of the CMHC forecast, click here.

YuKi Sushi, Alliston Ontario, the "new" Sushi Restaurant in town.

OK, "new" is relative. But I finally walked over to the Southwest corner of Victoria and Paris streets and tried the fare at Alliston newest and only Sushi Restaurant.

I decided to order a Bento Box and an order of Edamame and walk back to the office and sample the fare of this intimate restaurant in downtown Alliston.

I sampled the Salmon Bento Box, which included a salad, miso soup, sashimi, sushi and a roll.

I was very pleasantly surprised. The food was fresh, very tasty, and I found the Miso soup and Edamame not salty at all, which seems to be my most common complaint.

Now, this restaurant, is not an "all-you-can-eat" restaurant like Sushi Hama in Bolton or Akira Sushi in Barrie. What you might fall short in quantity, I feel you will gain in quality. I think there is enough variety in the dinner choices to satisfy almost everybody and enough choice in the a la carte menu for evening the discerning sushi palate.

I have not seen dishes like the Goma-ae (Japanese Style Spinach Salad), Spicy Sashimi Salad (Sashimi and vegetables tossed in a spicy sauce), Chirashi (Assorted Sashimi on a bed of rice), nor a la carte Sashimi like Maguro (Tuna), Albacore (Longfin Tuna), Izumi dai (Tilapia), Ika (Cuttlefish), Amaebi (Sweet Shrimp) in any of the local "all you can eat" sushi restaurants.

If you live in New Tecumseth or surrounding area, you no longer have far to drive to sate your craving for fine Sushi.

The fare at YuKi (pronounced You-key) Sushi, located on the West side of Paris Street south of Victoria Street, 16 Paris Street, Alliston is anything BUT yucky!. Helen and I will soon be back for dinner.

phone: 705.250.6254
YuKi Sushi

Wal-Mart Canada to spend $750 Million to expand and update facilities in Canada.

Wal-Mart Canada, which currently operates 333 stores across the country, is planning on 73 new projects to expand/update, relocate or create new centres, more than half of them supercentres with full service foodmarts.

These projects will add 4.6 million square feet to Wall-Mart's operations in the next year. These moves should create 14,000 new jobs over the next year.

With Target scheduled to open 24 stores in Ontario by April of 2013 and other U.S. retail giants like Kohl's and Nordstrom eyeing expansion into Canada, this looks like a move to cement Wal-Mart's standing in Canada.

Boob Tour Coming to Alliston!

Where: Hornet's Nest (New Tecumseth Recreation Complex - 2nd Floor)
When: 7:30 p.m. February 9th, 2012

The Boob Tour is a Stand Up Comedy Troupe touring to fight Cancer. Proceeds from this show are for the Relay For Life Alliston.

Tickets, $25.00, are available at the Hornet's Nest, Carline Automotive Services (Victoria St E), or by calling Patricia Durbano @ 705.435.8832