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Does The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have too much power and influence? It’s a question the foundation’s CEO Mark Suzman raised in its annual letter released Tuesday.
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Gates Foundation takes up question of its own power

The Norwegian police unit that investigates war crimes said Tuesday that it wants to talk to a Russian asylum-seeker who reportedly is a former high-ranking member of the private Russian military contractor Wagner Group.
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Norway wants to talk to asylum-seeker from Wagner Group

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in December slowed five per cent compared with November.
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CMHC reports annual pace of housing starts slowed in December

Strength in the energy, utility and industrial sectors helped Canada’s main stock index edge higher, while U.S. stock markets fell in late-morning trading.
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S&P/TSX composite creeps higher in late-morning trading, U.S. stock markets down

Ukraine’s first lady warned world leaders and corporate executives at the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering in the Swiss town of Davos that not all of them were using their influence at a time when Russia’s invasion leaves children dying and a world struggling with food insecurity.
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At Davos, Ukraine first lady urges leaders to ‘use influence’

Canada’s annual inflation rate slowed to 6.3 per cent in December as the cost of groceries remained high and gas prices cooled.
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Canada’s annual inflation rate slowed to 6.3 per cent in December, grocery prices stayed high

China’s economic growth fell to its second-lowest level in at least four decades last year under pressure from anti-virus controls and a real estate slump, but activity is reviving after restrictions that kept millions of people at home and sparked protests were lifted.
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China’s economy grew 3 per cent last year, not even half 2021’s rate

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has filed an unfair labour practices complaint against the union representing taxation employees, claiming it is not bargaining in good faith.
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Union calls CRA labour complaint hypocritical ahead of strike votes and tax season

Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales were flat at $72.3 billion in November.
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Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales flat at .3 billion in November

The Canadian Real Estate Association expects home sales to edge down less than one per cent and prices to fall almost six per cent from 2022, which ended with the market in a sluggish state as sellers and buyers sat on the sidelines.
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CREA predicts 2023 home sales to edge down 0.5 per cent from 2022 mark