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Soaring rents in Toronto, Vancouver force residents on modest incomes into ‘deplorable’ conditions

With Vancouver and Toronto vacancy rates at 0.9 and 1.7 per cent respectively, and rental prices surging, seniors, students, new immigrants, single parents and people with disabilities — those on modest or fixed incomes — are being priced out of their communities.

Ren Thomas, associate professor of planning at Dalhousie University in Halifax, warns it’s a real loss for our biggest cities.

“You need that diversity – and that’s what makes our big cities great is we have there, you know, different people in different jobs,” said Thomas.

Canada’s national housing agency, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), says

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Here’s what to know about Hartman’s Bakery reopening, and other Manitowoc business news

A North 11th St. view of Hartman's Bakery, LLC as seen, Wednesday, August 24, 2022, in Manitowoc, Wis.

A North 11th St. view of Hartman’s Bakery, LLC as seen, Wednesday, August 24, 2022, in Manitowoc, Wis.

MANITOWOC – Can’t you almost smell the deliciousness of bread-baking and cake-making wafting from North 11th Street in Manitowoc?

After months of waiting, the iconic Hartman’s Bakery will reopen on March 10.

Perhaps you want to get in line now for what is sure to be a crazy weekend for the bakery, closed after a kitchen fire.

But read Streetwise before you head out the door, of course! Here’s the latest business news from around Manitowoc County.

The long-awaited reopening of Hartman’s

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Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot – Business News

Microsoft’s newly revamped Bing search engine can write recipes and songs and quickly explain just about anything it can find on the internet.

But if you cross its artificially intelligent chatbot, it might also insult your appearance, threaten your reputation or compare you

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Indigo creates temporary website for browsing after cyberattack – Business News

Indigo Books & Music Inc. has created a temporary website for its customers to browse for books and gifts after a cyberattack halted the company’s online operations last week.

In a notice posted to the new site Friday titled “shop in store, window-shop online,” the Toronto-based retailer said the temporary website only allows for browsing and it is still

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Tesla recalling nearly 363,000 vehicles over ‘full self-driving’ software that could lead to crashes

Tesla is recalling 362,758 vehicles because a version of its “full self-driving” software may increase the risk of crashes, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in response to a notice Tesla sent the agency on Wednesday.

According to the recall document, the FSD’s “beta” release may cause affected Tesla vehicles to act unsafely around intersections. For example, it said, the software may cause the vehicle to travel “straight through an intersection while in a turn-only lane, [enter] a stop sign-controlled intersection without coming to a complete stop, or [proceed] into an intersection during a steady yellow traffic signal

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Pepsi drops Peeps-flavored soda: Here’s how to get the marshmallow-flavored cola

STATEN ISLAND, NY — A sensational cola treat is back by popular demand — Pepsi is once again offering its limited-edition Peeps soda.

The beverage company is collaborating with the Peeps brand to bring the marshmallow-flavored soda to market — a partnership that Pepsi said “broke the internet” in 2021. Two years ago, the partnership made its debut and trended everywhere — even being sold for hundreds of dollars on the resale market. That’s because the drop was available for 3,000 fans at the time, which intrigued cola drinkers everywhere and drove consumer demand.

Now the drink is being sold

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Is Your Practice Fraudulently Billing?

Most of our clients would obviously answer ‘no’, however, some providers are submitting bills incorrectly and could be subjecting themselves to hefty fines.

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Recently, a Florida Cardiology group and 10 of its physicians agreed to pay $2 million to settle False Claims Act allegations.

According to the settlement, the group submitted inflated claims to Medicare and Medicaid and billed for services while they were outside of the United States.

Whistleblowers

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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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