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Inside the weird world of Toronto’s transit seat upholstery
Scoring a seat on a busy bus, streetcar or subway is a hot commodity, but have you ever thought about why they’re made the way they are? Welcome to the weird world of transit seat upholstery.
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Separation speed bump: Negotiating with First Nations
In a Canada growing more politically restless by the day, the question will not solely be whether you can divide, but whether you can add or subtract. Treaty 6 First Nations’ leaders met in private with King Charles at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, reaffirming their nation-to-nation relationship and raising concerns about Alberta’s independence. Earlier in…
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Backlot HFX bringing queer nightlife back to Gottingen Street
Michael Gouthro says he hopes there’ll be something for everyone at his new two-storey locale.
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‘The risk is real’: Two tigers must be removed from residential property, says mayor of Ontario town
The owner of two tigers is facing an order to remove them from his property in Wainfleet, Ont., by Monday. Zohaib Masood, who has been keeping two sub-adult tigers on his former mushroom farm in the southern Niagara Region township since last fall, approached Wainfleet’s town council this week looking for an exemption to its…
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Withdrawn charges in Stronach sex assault trial raise questions about prosecution
When his trial began in February, Frank Stronach faced 12 counts related to seven female complainants whose allegations included sexual assault and the historical charges of rape and attempted rape. Now, with all the evidence heard and closing submissions set for the end of the month, those charges have been whittled down to seven —…
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Nordic leaders meet in Oslo with Carney as Arctic tensions sharpen over Greenland, Russia
Leaders from the five Nordic countries and Canada meet in Oslo for a mini-summit on Arctic security amid rising geopolitical tensions. Discussions follow a massive NATO exercise in northern Norway and focus on Russian military risks, the fallout from U.S. threats to seize Greenland and energy security.
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Windsor cuts some bylaw officer jobs under council-approved restructuring, union says
Windsor is cutting the number of officers available to enforce city bylaws as it restructures the department, according to their union.
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Musk pledges to rebuild xAI as another co-founder departs
Elon Musk said he intends to rebuild his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, after a series of departures sparked uncertainty about the company’s employee turnover and trajectory. “xAI was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up,” Musk said in a post on his X social media platform Thursday. xAI…
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A secret deal to avoid Ticketmaster breakup sparks frantic week
Michael Rapino had been slated to spend March 5 taking the stand in New York in the high-profile trial over the potential breakup of his US$40 billion company. Instead, the Live Nation Entertainment Inc. chief was in Washington, signing a last-minute, secret agreement to resolve the federal case. That accord traced a winding path from…
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Once red-hot, Dubai real estate bonds slump on demand fears
Investors who rushed to lend money to real estate developers in the United Arab Emirates are nursing losses as the Iran war hammers their bonds and threatens to stall a borrowing binge. Property companies had been leaning increasingly on the bond market as they raced to secure locations for residential projects in Dubai and Abu…