Staff picks: Equity firms and rising rents, taxi scams, pigs and goats on solar farms, and more

Has your rent gone up? How much might depend on who owns the unit. Private investment firms are buying up rental units… then raising the prices.

And: Scammers are masquerading as taxi drivers. You get a ride, but you also get taken for a ride. They scam your debit card, and some have stolen millions.

Also: Farmers are going high tech to make up for serious labour shortages.

Plus… Using farm animals to keep a solar farm going, Canada’s multiplex theatres embrace multicultural movies, invasive jellyfish, and more.