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Housing prices are only forecasted to drop one per cent in 2023, according to a new market survey forecast from Royal LePage. The aggregate price of a home in Canada is set to drop just one per cent year over year from $772,900 to $765,171, the survey is projecting — something that might disappoint hopeful homebuyers who expected rising interest rates to push down housing prices.“Typically what we see at this point in the market correction is demand falls, and with that, people who want to sell their homes need to sell them at a discount — prices drop,” said…

Kay Reed was always the life and soul of the party, her heartbroken friends said as they paid tribute to the 29-year-old, who was found in the bathroom of a Liverpool Airbnb A young woman was found dead by friends in the bathroom of the Airbnb apartment they were renting out for a hen do. Kay Reed, 29, was discovered at 1.30am by pal Louise Johnson at the property in Liverpool city centre. She had days earlier taken a minibus to Merseyside from Redcar, North Yorkshire, with a group of other women as they celebrated a friend’s upcoming wedding. The…

Star Chairman Ben Heap and Director Katie Lahey announced they will step down from their roles next year following ASIC’s lawsuit on 11 current and former Star employees.The lawsuit relates to the Sydney Casino after they allegedly failed to give sufficient focus on the risk of money laundering.ASIC’s Deputy Chairperson Sarah Court says specific executives allegedly failed to bring to the board significant risks the Star group was exposing itself to.“One of the key issues that a board has to deal with is that issue of risk,” Ms Court told Sky News Australia.“So, in this case, we allege that the…

Queensland’s forensic DNA lab inquiry reveals failures in testing that reduced conviction in some cases, with the failings first revealed by journalist Hedley Thomas in The Australian’s podcast about murdered Mackay woman Shandee Blackburn.Queensland DNA Lab Inquiry Commissioner Walter Sofronoff says they found some “disturbing” and “troubling” findings within the DNA inquiry.“For victims of crime who may have been told that there’s not enough DNA or that the DNA didn’t come up to proof, there’ll be decisions made about testing some of those samples, in some of those cases,” Mr Sofronoff said. Source: Sky News

By Kareem Gouda Global News Posted December 13, 2022 2:42 am Updated December 13, 2022 2:48 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size A major fire has sent one woman to hospital Monday night after a house fire broke out in East Vancouver. It broke out just before 9 p.m. near Nanaimo Street and 27th Avenue.Vancouver Fire Chief Karen Fry says one woman was trapped on the balcony when crews arrived.“It was my understanding that she was screaming for help when she arrived on scene and our crews strung into action quickly,” Fry explained.She says three other people…

Supporters of the outgoing president have been calling for military intervention since he lost the election to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.Supporters of Brazil’s outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro have attempted to invade federal police headquarters in the capital, in a burst of post-election violence on the day Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was certified as the country’s next president. Witnesses saw Bolsonaro supporters, many in their trademark yellow national football jerseys or draped in Brazilian flags, confronting security forces on Monday night at police headquarters in Brasilia. Police fired stun grenades and tear gas to disperse the crowd, the Reuters…

HONG KONG: Google has a “moral obligation” to stop a democracy protest song appearing in search results, Hong Kong’s leader said on Tuesday (Dec 13), as row over China’s national anthem widened to include the tech giant. Hong Kong officials have been infuriated by a series of mistakes at international sporting events in recent weeks when a protest song has been played instead of China’s national anthem for the city’s athletes. Their ire has increasingly focused on Google after it emerged that the protest song “Glory to Hong Kong” routinely appears at the top of the page when people search…

The first plant-based protein factory has opened in Australia. “Harvest B develops and manufactures plant proteins that are based on a local supply chain,” Harvest B’s Co-Founder and Chief Executive Kristi Riordan told Sky News Australia. “We use wheat that’s grown here in New South Wales to create specific formulations that have the texture that you might like to eat that are in beef, pork, chicken, and lamb.” Source: Sky News

Stocks of Chinese drugmakers, breweries and funeral services have stormed back into fashion as investors try to profit from a coronavirus exit wave as the world’s most populous country loosens pandemic restrictions.Over the past week, a clutch of Chinese pharmaceutical companies have been among the top performers on bourses in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen.Amid expectations of booming demand for fever medicine and other drugs, mainland China-listed shares of pharma companies Guangzhou Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical and Hualan Biological Engineering each gained more than 10 per cent over the past five trading days while Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical added 7 per cent.Shijiazhuang Yiling…

A stronger and more dangerous version of methamphetamine and fentanyl are helping drive America’s homeless crisis, with users quickly slipping into debilitating addiction and mental illness that makes it impossible for them to function in society.”These two drugs come in such enormous quantities and have such staggering potency that they do the job far more masterfully than drugs have done it before,” author Sam Quinones, who detailed the opioid crisis in books such as Dreamland and The Least of Us, said in an interview with the Intelligencer last week. “So you have methamphetamine that is driving people to homelessness, and…