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British couple arrested on suspicion of cocaine smuggling named

Two British pensioners arrested on suspicion of smuggling £2 million of cocaine into Europe on board a cruise ship have been named as husband and wife Roger and Susan Clarke. The pair, who live on the Costa Del Sol, were arrested when their liner, the Marco Polo, docked at Lisbon on December 4 and police […]

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Liberals Keeping Canadians In Dark About Costs Of Carbon Tax, Tories Say

OTTAWA — Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre will ask the House of Commons this week to force the government to show Canadians how much more they can expect to pay for gas, heat and groceries once every Canadian will be charged a $50 per tonne carbon tax. Poilievre says he knows the government has the […]

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How Crowdsourcing Feedback Will Transform Your Career

Ever had a performance review? You know the drill: sit in silence as your boss puts you under the microscope, analyzing your every move for the past year. Even if you know they only want to help you succeed, getting feedback can be awkward, intimidating and stressful. In the early days of growing my business, […]

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Paris ‘yellow vest’ protests lose steam after Emmanuel Macron concessions

Defiant “yellow vest” demonstrators took to the streets of Paris and other French cities on Saturday, but the anti-government protests appeared to be losing steam after major concessions by President Emmanuel Macron and another deadly terror attack on French soil. Riot police fired tear gas and fought with protesters on the Champs Elysées and elsewhere […]

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Smoke grenades and tear gas exchanged in Hungary ‘slave law’ protests

Protesters threw smoke grenades at police who responded with tear gas in Budapest on Sunday as thousands of people rallied against a new "slave law" passed by the government of conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban. More than 15,000 people joined the demonstration according to local reports. On Monday, the protests – the first since Mr Orban returned […]

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Fans think Destiny 2 just featured the series’ first booty call

Destiny’s story usually centres around evil alien gods or sci-fi technology gone horribly wrong and Forsaken, Destiny 2’s latest expansion, is noticeably darker in tone than anything else in the series yet. But it’s not all dark. And it’s not all about evil gods. Even Destiny’s heroes need some downtime. There’s a fresh bit of […]

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Nikol Pashinyan wins Armenia election by landslide in ‘revolutionary’ vote

Armenia’s acting prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, bolstered his authority as his political bloc won early parliamentary elections in the former Soviet country on Sunday, the Central Election Commission’s (CEC) results showed. My Step Alliance, which includes Mr Pashinyan’s Civil Contract Party, won 70.4 percent of the vote based on results from all polling stations, the […]

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Greater Toronto Home Sales Drop Nearly 40%, Vancouver Sales Down Almost 30%

TORONTO — The country’s two priciest housing markets continued to show signs of slowing in March, with sales falling 39.5 per cent in Greater Toronto and 29.7 per cent in the Vancouver region, compared to a year earlier. The Toronto Real Estate Board said there were 7,228 home sales through its MLS system last month […]

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Meet the F1 racer who streams PUBG, and the esports racer who’s now part of an F1 team

Every year, some of the best drivers in the world – champions from F1, the WEC, NASCAR and the WRC amongst other disciplines – get together to work towards the answer of that perennial motorsport fan’s pint-fuelled topic: what if you could put every driver in identical machinery? What if you could strip away the […]

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There's A New Threat Stalking Canada's Homebuyers

It seems like Canadian homebuyers just can’t catch a break. For years, housing affordability was being eroded by rapidly rising prices in many housing markets. That has come to an end in recent months, with a market slowdown setting in. Home resales were down 13.9 per cent in April, and the average price was 11.9 […]

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