Roofer is one of Ontario's 121 voluntary trades, so no provincial licence or register exists. Here is what a roofer must carry instead, and the six GTA municipalities that licence the work.
We checked 21 GTA tree programmes. Ten come with no price attached, seven charge a set price, four pay part of the bill. Who qualifies, and which windows are open.
Nine of the 15 GTA municipalities we checked make you clear the public sidewalk. Six clear it for you. Here is the rule, the clock and the cost in each one.
The same licence works anywhere in Ontario, so the fee is the only part that changes. Here is what 14 GTA city and town halls charge.
The average first fall frost is November 6 downtown and October 13 in Markham. Here is the autumn shutdown in the order those two dates force it, task by task.
The real end to end wait for a GTA building permit, computed from 99,540 city permit records, and why the law's 10 business days is a different clock.
What 917,258 GTA building permit records actually declare, why 93.9 per cent of Toronto's new-house declarations are round numbers, and how 13 published builder claims span 4.5 times.
What 19 GTA duct cleaning sites publish, what the $49 coupons leave out, and the vent count, dryer vent and tax conditions attached to every headline price.
Five Toronto markets really do run every week of the year, and each moves to a different spot in winter. Here is where they go, and which 'year-round' markets actually close.
Toronto's free museum nights, the library pass and the free GTA galleries are real, but almost every one carries a condition: a night, a day, an age, a ticket to book. Here is each one with its condition attached.
Toronto is Canadian hardiness zone 7a, not 5b or 6a, and the GTA's frost-free season varies by 47 days end to end. Here is the calendar that follows from those two facts.
Mid-August to mid-September is Ontario's real seeding window. Here are the soil temperatures each species needs, the Pearson climate normals behind the dates, and the four ways a seeding burns your money.
