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Your daily horoscope: January 27, 2026

  IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY You will be in a commanding mood over the next 12 months, the sort of mood where you don’t suffer fools and you don’t take prisoners. And why should you when you know all the answers, or at least the ones that are important to you? ARIES (March 21 - April 20): If you feel the need to spend some time alone then do so and don’t feel guilty about it. Even an Aries has days when it all gets too much and you need to keep the world at arm’s length. You will be raring to go again tomorrow. TAURUS (April 21 - May 21): Like it or not you will have to show your face and maybe even say a few words today. You may be a very private person but with so much going on career-wise you can and you must get yourself noticed. Your future could depend on it. GEMINI (May 22 - June 21): It’s not often you are this ambitious but over the next few days you will be determined to push ahead with your plans and push past obstacles that in former times might have held you back. Now t...

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Canadian Housing Starts Plunge 22% in November as Higher Rates Bite



Canadian housing starts fell by 22% in November from the previous month, missing estimates by a wide margin, as higher borrowing costs hurt groundbreaking on multiple unit and single-family detached urban homes, data from the national housing agency showed on Friday.

The seasonally adjusted annualized rate of housing starts fell to 212,624 units from a downwardly revised 272,264 units in October, the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) said. Economists polled by Reuters expected starts to decrease to 257,100 in November.

As the more difficult borrowing conditions and labour shortages now seem to be showing in the starts numbers, we can expect to see continued slower starts rates in the coming months, according to CMHC’s deputy chief economist Kevin Hughes.


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