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Tue, 20 Apr 2021 04:00:00 EDT
This B.C. city sold bus ads in Vancouver and Toronto promising affordable homes. Now prices are skyrocketing
Prince George once bought ads on Vancouver's Skytrain promising affordable housing. Now it's dealing with its own real estate bubble, and locals fear they will be priced out of the market. ...

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Quebec court rules today on whether religious symbols ban violates Constitution
A Quebec Superior Court judge will issue a ruling later this morning on whether the province's controversial ban on religious symbols is constitutional. The ruling could have far-reaching implications...

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 04:00:00 EDT
With one budget, Freeland overturned 3 decades of political orthodoxy
Most members of Parliament grew up in a political culture that embraced the Reagan-Thatcher school of low taxes, light regulation and small government. Thanks to the pandemic — and Finance Minister ...

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Veterans Affairs won't release its review into former soldier who fatally shot his family, himself
Veterans Affairs conducted an internal review into the circumstances leading up to the day an Afghanistan veteran with severe post-traumatic stress disorder shot his family and himself — but never s...

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Federal budget resurrects 'economic harm' warning as fighter jet contract nears
Defence contractors, perhaps one in particular, were served notice in Monday's budget that the Liberal government will penalize companies that try to do the country economic harm. The policy was a fea...

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 04:00:00 EDT
5 things in the Trudeau government's budget that have nothing to do with spending
Despite the Liberal Party's 2015 promise not to table omnibus budgets, Monday's budget contains several potentially controversial provisions that have little or nothing to do with government spending ...

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 22:21:09 EDT
What you need to know about B.C.'s new travel restrictions
B.C. Premier John Horgan announced new travel restrictions on Monday to stop non-essential travel and reduce travel between health authorities. More details are expected to be announced later this w...

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 20:11:23 EDT
Budget goes big on green spending as environmentalists criticize tax credits for carbon capture
As the world confronts a warming climate, the federal Liberals are committing billions more dollars to a variety of measures meant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the economy and help ...

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 09:39:47 EDT
Rogers says service starting to return after Canada-wide wireless outage
Rogers said wireless voice and data services have started returning to its customers Monday evening after a lengthy outage the company's chief technological officer said was caused by a software issue...

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 19:56:53 EDT
2 COVID-19 cases confirmed in Kinngait
New measures are in place as two new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Kinngait Monday evening.

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 10:50:23 EDT
As ICUs fill up, doctors confront grim choice of who gets life-saving care
The moment every health-care worker dreads is drawing perilously near in Ontario — when a lack of ICU beds means doctors will have to decide who gets potentially life-saving care and who doesn't. ...

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 10:24:58 EDT
Canada's new home construction hits record high in March
Canadian housing starts rose 21.6 per cent in March compared with the previous month, easily beating expectations and hitting a new record, data from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation sho...

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 10:35:48 EDT
Charges laid against 5 from Ontario seen at Walmart less than an hour after arriving on P.E.I.
Summerside police charged five people for failing to self-isolate on Friday night after someone reported an Ontario vehicle at the city's Walmart less than an hour after the group arrived on P.E.I. ...

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Woman with dementia locked into 10-year home-heating contract — with a $15K lien on her property
Homeowners say they are being blindsided with thousands of dollars’ worth of liens on their properties after signing contracts for heating and air conditioning equipment that are worth a fraction of...

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:52:15 EDT
Kahnawake vaccinates teens as community's mass vaccination campaign comes to an end
While only about 0.2 per cent of teens have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in Canada, a First Nation in Quebec included them in its mass vaccination campaign.

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Freeland's 1st budget could be one of the most significant in decades. Here's how to watch and listen
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will deliver her first federal budget today — Canada's first in two years. Here's how to keep up with the day's events.

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 04:00:00 EDT
CRA has nearly 1,200 complaints of companies misusing COVID money, but has issued no fines
The Canada Revenue Agency has received nearly 1,200 complaints about companies allegedly misusing federal support money designed to protect jobs during the pandemic. But the CEWS program places few re...

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:26:24 EDT
Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Monday
The Ontario government voted against a series of Opposition motions aimed at supporting essential workers on Monday, including one that sought to create a provincial paid sick-leave program. Advocates...

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 04:00:00 EDT
How a COVID-19 vaccine can (and cannot) affect menstruation, mammograms and more
Four health experts told CBC News there are key findings women can keep in mind when getting the COVID-19 vaccine — particularly if they are pregnant, booking a mammogram or a fertility treatmen...

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Expanded during pandemic, virtual medical care offers big climate benefits: researchers
Online medical visits or telephone appointments can reduce costs, travel and time in the waiting room, but virtual health care may also have environmental benefits, researchers in B.C. and N.S. have ...



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