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"In some ways, we have to realize that this is a good problem to have.” Premier Kathleen Wynne announced the province’s 16 new measures for controlling the price of housing. Now, post-1991 construction will no longer be exempt from Ontario's rent increase guidelines, and non-residents will have to pay a 15 per cent speculation tax. All of this unveiled with soothing typography:
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The new Rogers CEO is too distracted for Twitter. Joe Natale debuted in his new job after his non-compete clause with Telus expired. Customer service was on his mind at the annual general meeting—the company’s content seemingly an afterthought. But while he’s joining employees in the field, Natale’s social media accessibility is all too typical
of most Canadian communication execs: initially indifferent, then ultimately abandoned.
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Pinball bar in a standoff with its Annex landlord. Tilt, an old-school arcade bar at Brunswick and Bloor, was open for three months before being told its one-year lease wouldn’t be up for renewal, because its landlord wants to make the building into a boutique hotel. Twenty residents upstairs were given as little as 30 days to move out. Tilt owner Nathan Hunter says he has now lined up funding to buy the building himself, but the other tenants may end up on the streets in the interim.
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Bill O’Reilly boycotted Canada before anyone boycotted Bill O’Reilly. The Fox News host's hasty exit amid sexual harassment allegations is a reminder that he's no stranger to the ways of mass-media outrage. He once instructed viewers to stop drinking Pepsi for using raunchy rapper Ludacris as a spokesman. Later, he called for a boycott of Canada for harbouring two Iraq War deserters—something Heather Mallick went on The O’Reilly Factor
to get badgered about. (Then she squeezed a column out of the deal.)
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