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Rent-free months and gift cards: How Toronto-area landlords are vying for tenants

Rent-free months and gift cards: How Toronto-area landlords are vying for tenants

TORONTO — Toronto landlords are trying to lure in tenants with rent-free months, complimentary Wi-Fi and $500 gift cards amid an unprecedented supply of condos and lower rents.
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Former Creedence Clearwater front man John Fogerty celebrates 80th with show in Manhattan

Former Creedence Clearwater front man John Fogerty celebrates 80th with show in Manhattan

NEW YORK (AP) — As he turned 80 this week, John Fogerty was in a mood to honor his past and to revise it. We should all be so alive and so remembered at his age.
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Performers and opera lovers see 'The Central Park Five' as a show of resistance against Trump

Performers and opera lovers see 'The Central Park Five' as a show of resistance against Trump

DETROIT (AP) — As Detroit Opera officials made plans last fall to bring a production based on the Central Park Five to their 2025 lineup, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump loomed large and just off stage.
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Brazil's lifelike doll craze goes from shopping malls to state legislatures

Brazil's lifelike doll craze goes from shopping malls to state legislatures

SAO PAULO (AP) — Videos featuring emotional moments with hyper-realistic baby dolls have sparked both online fascination and political debate in Brazil , with lawmakers even bringing the lifelike dolls into legislatures.
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Japan says China will resume Japanese seafood imports it halted over Fukushima water discharge

Japan says China will resume Japanese seafood imports it halted over Fukushima water discharge

TOKYO (AP) — China will resume Japanese seafood imports that it banned in 2023 over worries about Japan's discharge of wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea, a Japanese official said Friday.
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Search continues in the St. Lawrence River for entangled North Atlantic right whale

Search continues in the St. Lawrence River for entangled North Atlantic right whale

Experts with the federal Fisheries Department and Parks Canada are searching the St. Lawrence River estuary for a North Atlantic right whale tangled in fishing gear.
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Ex-assistant testifies Sean 'Diddy' Combs sexually assaulted her and used violence to get his way

Ex-assistant testifies Sean 'Diddy' Combs sexually assaulted her and used violence to get his way

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs ’ former personal assistant testified Thursday that the hip-hop mogul sexually assaulted her, threw her into a swimming pool, dumped a bucket of ice on her and slammed a door against her arm during a torturous eight
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Ottawa tabling bill to skirt impact assessment law for 'national interest' projects

Ottawa tabling bill to skirt impact assessment law for 'national interest' projects

OTTAWA — The federal government is developing a "national interest" bill to fast-track nation-building projects with a streamlined regulatory approval process as a substitute for reviews under the Impact Assessment Act.
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What happens to Trump’s tariffs now that a court has knocked them down?

What happens to Trump’s tariffs now that a court has knocked them down?

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has audaciously claimed virtually unlimited power to bypass Congress and impose sweeping taxes on foreign products. Now a federal court has thrown a roadblock in his path. A three-judge panel of the U.S.
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Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs back on after appeals court decision

Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs back on after appeals court decision

OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs are still hitting most countries around the world after a federal appeals court temporarily paused a decision from the U.S. Court of International Trade.
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