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    Chicagoans vote on real estate tax hike to fight homelessness

    Chicagoans will vote in Tuesday's primary election on whether to increase the tax rate on real estate transfers worth over $1 million in order to raise funds for affordable housing and fighting homelessness. The ballot measure would lower property transfer taxes for the vast majority of Chicago residents, to $3 for every $500 of a transfer price under $1 million, down from the current flat rate of $3.75. But it would create new brackets at the priciest end of the city's property market, includ

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    Jake Gyllenhaal embraced the physicality of 'Road House' role

    Jake Gyllenhaal discusses balancing working out and the physical aesthetics of his role in new action movie "Road House" (Mar. 19)

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    13 people trapped after mine collapse in Russia’s Far East

    Emergency officials say a gold mine collapse in Russia’s Far Eastern Amur region has trapped 13 people at a depth of about 125 meters. A rescue operation is underway to clear the transport slope and restore communication with the trapped miners.

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  • BusinessCBC

    Quebec's largest nursing union announces tentative contract deal with government

    Quebec's largest nurses' union, the Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec (FIQ), announced Tuesday it has reached a tentative contract deal with the provincial government. Union president Julie Bouchard made the announcement in a statement. "After 16 months of negotiations, eight days of strikes and several mobilization actions and demonstrations … it will now be up to [members] to evaluate the work done at the negotiating table," she said. The proposed agreement will be presente

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    N.S. wine industry representatives suggest changes coming to controversial program

    Those for and against a controversial new wine support program left an almost two-hour meeting with Premier Tim Houston on Monday night happy to have discussed the issue in person and confident the two sides can live with possible changes. "The meeting was good," said Karl Coutinho, chair of the board at Wine Growers of Nova Scotia, a group that represents family-run wineries in the province."It was our first chance, from the farm wineries' perspective, to sit down with the premier and his team

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  • BusinessThe Weather Network

    Spring kicks off with heavy snow in Alberta, with 30 cm possible this week

    After days of record warmth, Alberta will see quite the reversal of fortunes this week, culminating in a multi-day snowfall event and a drastic temperature plunge

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    Feds plans to audit FSIN spending after allegations of misused public funds

    Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) is set to conduct a forensic audit of the funding it has given the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) over a nearly five-year span and how it has been spent.The FSIN represents 74 First Nations in Saskatchewan.CBC News obtained a letter sent by ISC to the FSIN executive, dated March 15. In it, ISC says it intends to review how the FSIN spent money provided by the ISC in several funding agreements from April 1, 2019, to the present and that the date

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