Google's parent abandoned plans to develop a 'smart city' in a Toronto neighborhood, a project that ran into local opposition
Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Sidewalk Labs cited the economic uncertainty and harm to Toronto’s real-estate market caused by the coronavirus pandemic
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