Dwight Hayes

REALTOR® with Century 21 Leading . Rider fan

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Looking for a Adult Living Condo? This listing could be the one! Please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions! You can reach me at [phone].

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Canada Announces New Home Heating Rebates of Up to $10,000: Eligibility, Application Process and What to Know
Ready to upgrade your home and save big? 🍁🏠 Canada just launched a $2B program offering up to $10,000 for heat pump retrofits—aiming to help 1 million homes go ...

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8,800 apartments built in Edmonton last year, seeing more demand
Did you know single-occupancy households in Edmonton could hit 40% by 2041? 🏙️ With 8,800 new apartments built last year and booming demand, diverse and affordable housing is on the rise! Ready to see what’s ...

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Canada Construction Market Size, Trends and Sector Forecast to 2030
Did you know Canada’s construction industry is set to grow 2.6% in 2026 and keep rising? 🚧🏗️ From affordable housing to renewable energy, big government investments are fueling the boom—despite rising costs. ...

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Restrictive Covenants in Alberta: What Property Owners and Developers Need to Know
Navigating the world of Alberta real estate means understanding restrictive covenants—those rules that can shape how you use your property, now and in the future. Whether you’re buying your ...

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If you're looking for a 2 bedroom home in SPRUCE GROVE, this new listing could be the one! Click for more pictures and information. Show someone who might be interested or call me at [phone]!

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'Bumpy and even': RBC Economics releases latest housing market outlook
RBC Economics has just released its latest outlook, and it confirms what many of us are seeing: the housing market across Canada is navigating a patchwork of challenges. In places like Ontario, Vancouver, ...

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Acadia Real Estate Statistics Update
Here’s a look at Acadia’s real estate stats for September 2026: the median home ask price stood at $315,000, with median sold price just a bit lower at $310,500. Over the last year, the area’s median ask and sold prices were $576,225 and ...

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When is the right time to buy?
As someone who believes buying a home should be a positive and rewarding experience, I’ve found that the question isn’t just about timing the market—it’s about when you feel truly ready and confident in your decision. Many Canadians focus on ...

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@BrianCHouston I met your son Joel at YC event in Edmonton, Alberta. This going back over 20 years ago, he was the real deal in character and was genuinely interested in purchasing short conversation. Your are blessed!

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Canadian spot named a top 'city to watch' in North America
Exciting news for our community—Edmonton has been recognized as a top 'city to watch' in North America, ranking 125th in the Oxford Economic Global Cities Index 2026. The city is being celebrated for its economic ...

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Canada's housing markets split along regional lines in August
August brought a fascinating mix of trends across Canada’s housing markets, each region telling its own story. Toronto saw sales dip by 1.3% along with a drop in prices, while Vancouver experienced an 8.5% increase ...

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Canada Poised for Homebuilding Growth Beyond 2025
Housing starts across Canada dropped by 2% last month, bringing the total to 17,691 units—a 4% decrease so far this year. While Montreal and Vancouver saw some gains, Toronto remained steady. With high construction costs, ...

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Purchasing a new home
Navigating the home buying process can feel overwhelming, but with the right guidance, it becomes a rewarding experience. I always encourage my clients to get familiar with the difference between a seller’s market and a buyer’s market—this knowledge can ...

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Canada's housing markets show persistent regional splits
Navigating the Canadian housing market means understanding how each region tells its own story. While Toronto’s recovery seems to have hit a pause with prices dipping, Ottawa is charting a different course with prices ...

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Mid-year outlook for Canada's housing market: Between correction and recovery
Looking ahead to 2026, Canada’s housing market is beginning to show encouraging signs: we’re seeing more resales, inventory levels finding some balance, and the pace of price declines easing. Even ...

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After September 11, more than a million tons of the World Trade Center was loaded onto barges and shipped to a garbage dump on Staten Island.

Then hundreds of men and women stood at conveyor belts for ten months and picked through every ounce of it by hand.

They were looking for people.

The place is called Fresh Kills. For fifty years it was the largest landfill in the world. It took its last barge of household trash on March 22, 2001, and shut down for good. New York was finally done with it.

Five and a half months later, at two o'clock in the morning on September 12, the landfill's director got a phone call at home. He had just walked in the door.

Two trucks were at the gate. They were carrying pieces of the World Trade Center.

He drove back.

The man who ran the dump would later say, without any drama, that if Fresh Kills had not been closed, this could never have happened. There would have been no room. The garbage would have been in the way.

The site was empty. So that is where the towers went.

Here is how it worked.

At Ground Zero, cranes and grapplers lifted the debris into dump trucks. The trucks drove to a pier on the Hudson. There, the load went onto barges, six hundred tons at a time. The barges were towed down the harbor, past the Statue of Liberty, to Staten Island. More than fifteen hundred barges made the trip.

At Fresh Kills, sanitation workers unloaded them onto a hill.

And then the sorting began.

The debris was mechanically screened into three sizes. Chunks bigger than eight inches. Two to eight inches. A quarter inch to two inches. Anything smaller than a quarter of an inch, the size of a fingernail, fell through the last sieve.

Everything above that size went onto a conveyor belt.

And along the belts stood the detectives.

NYPD. FBI. Port Authority police. Medical examiners. Dressed head to toe in white Tyvek suits, in masks, in gloves, on a hill that stank of jet fuel and pulverized concrete and things nobody wanted to name. Looking down at the belt, hour after hour, as the towers rolled past them a fist-sized chunk at a time.

When they saw something, they reached in and took it, and placed it in a white bucket at their feet.

A wedding ring. A photo ID. A set of keys. A shoe.

A piece of a person.

The white buckets went to a tent that served as a morgue.

The volume was beyond comprehension. In mid-September the operation was processing 1,750 tons of debris a day. By mid-October, 17,500 tons a day. Ten times more. Round the clock. The 200-acre hill was declared a federal crime scene and stayed one for ten months.

A retired NYPD detective later wrote down what a shift looked like, because almost nobody outside knew it existed.

You wake at 3 a.m. You get a giant coffee. You drive two hours in the dark from Orange County, through New Jersey, to Staten Island. You park at the bottom of a hill that looks like the end of the world. You put on the white suit. You go to your belt. You stand there. You look.

Then you drive two hours home and do it again tomorrow.

Sanitation workers pulled sixteen-hour shifts, seven days a week. One of them, a supervisor named Barry Asnes, said afterward what kept him there. We were attacked on our own soil, in the city where I was born. This was personal.

The operation did not stop for weather. It did not stop for Christmas. It ran until July 2002. Ten months.

By the end, the men and women on that hill had recovered thousands of human remains. Tens of thousands of personal effects. Wallets, badges, wedding bands, photographs, all cleaned and catalogued and returned to families who had nothing else to bury.

When they were finished, the remaining material was placed in a 48-acre section of the landfill, a mound two hundred and twenty-five feet high, and covered.

It is a park now.

Many of the men and women who stood on that hill have lung disease. Asthma. Cancer. PTSD. The air they were breathing, eight and ten and sixteen hours a day, was full of the towers. Some of them have died of it.

Almost nobody knows their names. Almost nobody knows the place.

Mention Fresh Kills and 9/11 in the same sentence, the retired detective wrote, and most people will have no idea what you are talking about.

Here is what you should know.

Two thousand seven hundred and fifty-three people were murdered in those towers. Only about six in ten have ever been identified.

Every one of those identifications came out of a white bucket.

Every wedding ring returned to a widow. Every badge returned to a firehouse. Every fragment of bone matched to a name and buried with a headstone instead of a question mark.

Somebody in a white suit, standing at a belt on a garbage dump at four in the morning, reached into the World Trade Center as it rolled past, and picked that person up, and put them in a bucket, and sent them home.

They did that for ten months.

Nobody applauded on the hill. There was nobody to watch.

They did it anyway. 🇺🇸

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Falling home prices drive record 10th straight quarter of affordability gains
It's encouraging to see that housing affordability has improved for the 10th consecutive quarter, as falling home prices have helped balance out those higher mortgage rates. Right now, homeowners ...