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    The Canadian Press

    Owning Wrexham is hitting Ryan Reynolds in the wallet. Club owes its celebrity owners more than $11M

    Owning a soccer club is hitting Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds in the wallet. Wrexham, the Welsh team bought by Reynolds and fellow Hollywood actor Rob McElhenney in 2021, released its accounts for the latest financial year on Thursday and reported that the amount owed to celebrities has risen to nearly 9 million pounds ($11.4 million). That was up from 3.7 million pounds ($4.67 million) from the previous year, ending June 2022. While the club said turnover rose from nearly 6 million pounds ($7.5

  • News
    Financial Post

    Canada is building more housing than ever, but it still isn't enough

    Carl Gomez: No quick fixes for restoring equilibrium to the housing market, but these policies will help

  • News
    The Canadian Press

    Cranes arriving to start removing wreckage from deadly Baltimore bridge collapse

    BALTIMORE (AP) — A crane appeared at the site of a collapsed highway bridge in Baltimore as crews prepared Friday to begin clearing wreckage that has stymied the search for four missing workers and blocked ships from entering or leaving the city's vital port. A crane that can lift 1,000 tons — described the largest on the Eastern Seaboard — had been expected to arrive late Thursday, and a second that can lift 400 tons should arrive Saturday, officials said earlier. They will be used to clear the

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    The Canadian Press

    A tropical cyclone makes landfall in northern Madagascar, killing 18 people

    ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — A tropical cyclone that swept across Madagascar has killed 18 people and left four missing after making landfall on the north of the Indian Ocean island nation earlier this week, authorities said on Friday. The storm has also caused severe flooding that partly submerged entire villages, displaced or affected some 47,000 people and set off landslides that injured three people, the National Office for Disaster Management said. Cyclone Gamane hit northern Madagascar