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Go Green with the new Ontario Green Mortgage

If you are looking to buy a home in Ontario, care about the environment and are committed to doing all you can to help make a difference – just like we are – then the Green Mortgage is for you. It’s a mortgage that helps you identify changes that can be made in your home to help the environment while reducing your energy costs and saving you money with our competitive mortgage rates at the same time.

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Clean Air Auto Loan

Like you, we care about our environment. So, we do more than just applaud your decision to purchase a low emissions vehicle. We reward your environmental efforts by saving you money on your car loan.
Our Clean Air Auto Loan is a personal loan for up to $35,000 with a fantastic rate as low as Prime.
The low rate could save you up to $3,000 in interest over five years* and at the same time you contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Politicians brimming with pollutants

Ontario’s top three politicians are awash with pollutants, from PCBs to pesticides, stain repellents to flame retardants. And it seems the party leaders are more polluted than the average Canadian, according to a report released yesterday by a Toronto-based watchdog group.
Premier Dalton McGuinty, NDP Leader Howard Hampton and Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory offered up blood and urine samples to Environmental Defence to test for 70 different chemicals, including organochlorine pesticides, such as DDT, air pollutants called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, and, for the first time, bisphenol A, a chemical commonly used in plastics.
The tests revealed the politicians carried a total of 46 pollutants in their bodies, many of which have been linked to cancer, respiratory illness and hormonal problems. All three leaders had higher concentrations of chemicals than five families tested by Environmental Defence last year.

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