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New AI voice-cloning tools ‘add fuel’ to misinformation fire – Business News

In a video from a Jan. 25 news report, President Joe Biden

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Toronto home sales forecast to fall to levels not seen in two decades

TREB also predicts prices will rise this year, but will still be lower than in 2022

A real estate sign outside a home in Toronto.
A real estate sign outside a home in Toronto. Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National Post

Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) will decline to their lowest level since 2001 this year despite a rebound in the second half, according to annual forecast from the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB).

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The IRS tells 21 states how to handle last year’s special payments

After much outside criticism, the Internal Revenue Service basically told taxpayers in most — but not all — states that they do not need to report income from special state tax refunds or payments on their 2022 federal income tax returns.

Tens of millions of taxpayers in 21 states — not including Michigan — were told a week earlier to hold off filing their federal income tax returns until the IRS could give guidance. The IRS gave such guidance late Friday — and taxpayers should be able to move forward.

The National Taxpayer Advocate issued a highly critical blog Thursday

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Who is Hindenburg, the firm targeting India’s Adani? – Business News

Hindenburg Research, the financial research

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Biden’s speech to address the successes Americans missed [Video]

President Joe Biden is set to devote significant portions of Tuesday night’s speech not to any new initiatives, but to remind Americans of his accomplishments in the last two years and dusting off his ‘implementer-in-chief’ bona fides for programs that are rolling out .

The president has good reason for this approach. Biden has signed more significant new laws compared to other presidents going back decades, but those achievements have not broken through to the public consciousness.

A recent Washington Post/ABC poll found that 62% of respondents (and 66% of independents) felt he had accomplished “not very much” or “little

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A shortage of pilots is making travel chaos in Canada even worse

From pandemic-related travel restrictions to extreme weather events, Canada’s travel industry has navigated an unprecedented amount of uncertainty of late. And now, just as demand for travel has returned to its 2019 level, airlines are navigating their next patch of turbulence: a lack of qualified pilots.

According to Transport Canada, in a typical pre-pandemic year, roughly 1,100 pilot licenses were issued. When complemented by foreign-trained pilots, that was generally more than enough to satisfy the needs of carriers as large as WestJet and Air Canada, all the way down to regional, charter and cargo airlines.

But as demand for flying

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Tim Hortons app users get free beverage and baked good in settlement

Class action alleged the coffee chain’s mobile app breached users’ privacy

Published Feb 01, 2023 • Last updated 2 days ago • 3 minute read

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Under the settlement, eligible Tim Hortons' mobile app users have been given two credits to be used to redeem one free hot beverage and one free baked good from participating locations.
Under the settlement, eligible Tim Hortons’ mobile app users have been given two credits to be used to redeem one free hot beverage and one free baked good from participating locations. Photo by Brent Lewin/Bloomberg

Tim Hortons’ mobile application users can now get a free hot beverage and a baked good after the Superior Court of Quebec approved a settlement agreement in a class-action

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BC wood manufacturers to get bigger cut of the cut – Business News

Wood manufacturers in B.C. that have little or no Crown tenure will get increased access to logs through BC Timber Sales.

BC Forests Minister Bruce Ralston Tuesday announced a new program – the BC Timber Sales (BCTS) Value-Added Manufacturing Program – that will set aside 10% of BC Timber sales for qualifying businesses.

It will not be open to conventional lumber producers. Only higher value-added manufacturers will qualify. That includes veneer and plywood, engineered wood products, shakes and shingles, log home manufacturing, decking and flooring.

The announcement was made Tuesday at Coastland Industries Ltd., which makes veneer in

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