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There is a growing number of animals looking to find new homes in Toronto as owners who bought pandemic pets at the height of COVID-19 return to work — or struggle with the rising cost of looking after them, city officials warn.  According to Toronto Animal Services, a city-run agency, there has been a 63 …

Ahmed Abdulkadir used to stock his restaurant without giving his shopping list a second thought, but now a simple stop at the store is painful. The prices of staples from rice to cooking oil have skyrocketed, leaving the restaurateur standing in the grocery aisle asking himself, “OK, do I need this?” “It hurts,” he …

The meandering 100-kilometre road from the Trans-Canada Highway to Twillingate, N.L.,  is not one ordinarily travelled by accidental tourists. Visitors to the colourful historic town of 2,000 residents, which dubs itself as the “Iceberg Capital of the World,” are what the tourism industry calls destination travellers. And that is precisely …

Central American countries are eagerly waiting to see if El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin as parallel legal tender cuts the cost of remittances, an important source of income for millions of people, the region’s development bank said. President Nayib Bukele’s congressional allies have already approved legislation giving the cryptocurrency official …