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Canada’s average rent drops to 18-month low
Feb 11, 2025
Rental prices across Canada have dropped to an 18-month low, with January's average monthly rent at $2,100, marking a 4.4% annual decline. The decrease is driven by economic risks, declining international population inflows, and a surge in apartment completions. Key...
Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance received mixed react …
Feb 10, 2025
Kendrick Lamar headlined the Super Bowl LIX halftime show in New Orleans, delivering a performance featuring hits, including his controversial diss track "Not Like Us" aimed at Drake. The performance opened with Samuel L. Jackson, dressed as Uncle Sam, narrating the...
Trump discusses Canada becoming 51st state in Super Bowl interview
Feb 10, 2025
Former President Donald Trump expressed a serious interest in annexing Canada as the 51st U.S. state during a Super Bowl preshow interview. He claimed the U.S. loses $200 billion annually in trade with Canada, although this figure inaccurately reflects typical trade...
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Kidnapped former British honorary consul rescued in Ecuador
Dec 22, 2023 | Community News
BARRIO (The Guardian) - A British businessman and former UK honorary consul has been released four days after being kidnapped in Ecuador, police have said. Colin Armstrong, 78, was kidnapped in the...
Toronto FC will host Messi’s Inter Miami in 2024 season finale
Dec 21, 2023 | Community News
BARRIO - Lionel Messi will be in town on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. In the team’s official 2024 MLS regular-season schedule released on Wednesday, Toronto FC will host Inter Miami in its regular-season...
Salvadorans have become the third largest Hispanic community in the USA
Dec 21, 2023 | Community News
An estimated 2.5 million Hispanics of Salvadoran origin resided in the United States in 2021, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey....
Meet the Russian professor who became mayor of a Colombian city
Dec 21, 2023 | Community News
BARRIO (AP) - Mikhail Krasnov walks along the steep streets of the Colombian city of Tunja just like any other resident — except he’s no longer just another neighbor. Now people greet the newly...
Colombia’s cannabis industry in crisis over regulatory, political hur …
Dec 21, 2023 | Community News
BARRIO (Yahoo) - More than 17 acres of land owned by a Colombian-Canadian company near Bogota were once meant to grow 25 varieties of cannabis, but over the past year weeds have overtaken...
Selena’s Murderer Yolanda Saldívar Pleads for Family’s Compassion Pre- …
Dec 21, 2023 | Community News
BARRIO - Yolanda Saldívar, the convicted murderer of Tejano music star Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, is set to reach out to the late singer's family with a heartfelt plea. Almost three decades after the...
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