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See if this makes sense to you. Sales of new condos in Toronto have more or less fallen off a cliff, down 66.5 per cent in March compared to the same month a year earlier. So what did prices do? They soared by nearly 40 per cent during the same period. That’s according to new […]

A crowd of protesters, draped in the Venezuelan flag and faces masked against the tear gas approach a riot police cordon on one of Caracas’ main streets. “Join us!” they beseech, but the black line holds firm. The footage is from Wednesday, but could easily be from 2014 or 2017. Nicolás Maduro, who succeeded Hugo […]

This seems to be the year of the condo in Canadian real estate — even, it would seem, at the very top end of the market. According to listings data compiled by Point2 Homes, the most expensive residential property for sale in Canada right now is a $38-million penthouse condo overlooking the city skyline and […]

HONG KONG — The U.S. clothing retailer Gap apologized Tuesday for selling T-shirts with what it says is an incorrect map of China that didn’t include self-ruled Taiwan, in the latest example of corporate kowtowing to Beijing. “Upon the realization that one of our T-shirts sold in some overseas markets mistakenly failed to reflect the […]

Russia accused the United States of trying to usurp power in Venezuela and warned against US military intervention there, putting it at odds with Washington and the EU which backed protests against one of Moscow’s closest allies. Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim leader on Wednesday, winning the support of Washington and parts of Latin America […]

It was perhaps the most murderous and feared secret service in the world, its name alone sending shivers down the spines of the Soviet Union’s enemies in the West. Now, in a development unimaginable during the Cold War, Americans can view the killer contraptions and surveillance techniques the KGB developed to use against them. At […]

The luxury housing markets in Toronto and Vancouver are undergoing a major slowdown, with sales plummeting from year-ago levels and once-rapidly-rising prices now under pressure, according to new reports released this week. And a recovery within the next year looks unlikely. Sales of luxury homes in the Greater Toronto Area fell by nearly 68 per […]

LONDON (Reuters) – A Cambridge Analytica whistleblower said on Tuesday that Canadian company AggregateIQ worked on software called Ripon which was used to identify Republican voters ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. AggregateIQ did not immediately respond to request for comment on the remarks by Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower formerly of British political consultancy […]

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman personally tortured and murdered his enemies and buried a rival alive, according to the Mexican drug kingpin’s former hitman. Isaias Valdez Rios told a court in New York that he had witnesses Guzman, 61, killing several people – the first time that the jury has heard of Guzman himself carrying out a […]

Britain is urging the United States to abandon plans to cut its military presence in Somalia after last week’s terrorist attack in neighbouring Kenya, according to Western defence officials. The assault by al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s Somali franchise, on a hotel and office complex in Nairobi demonstrated the group’s resilience 12 years after US troops were first […]