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    “There’s a freedom and lightness that comes with making work in the schoolhouse that I find refreshing,” says Brennan Hinton. (Photography by Rémi Thériault)

    This painter turned a 1918 schoolhouse into the art studio of his dreams

    Keiran Brennan Hinton was looking for a breath of plein air. He found it at the schoolhouse.

    (Courtesy of Peter Toth/BC BoxOffice)

    These lockdown renovations were done with an eye for post-pandemic living

    Backyard offices, home gyms, rock-climbing rooms. Here are some of the spaces reconfigured with new realities in mind.

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    The grave state of a Diefenbaker’s digs

    John Diefenbaker’s house needs some fixing, but paying for repairs isn’t cheap

    Home renovation free ride

    Do energy rebates help the environment or fund home makeovers that would have happened anyway?

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    Dramatic flourish of the day

    The NDP’s Pat Martin asks a question of the government this afternoon.

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    Your next minister of finance

    Celebrity contractor and owner of many sleeveless shirts, Mike Holmes, makes pitch for government tax credit and upstanding guys like him. To reinforce Holmes’ point, newspaper editors put headline “Go with the pro” above photo of Prime Minister famously struggling with a nail gun.