Tag: Canada
Interest waning in red meat consumption | The Western Producer
A national poll has found that more than a third of Canadians…
StatsCan: Legal pot spending beat black market for first time in Q2 – Article – BNN
Canadian household spending on legal cannabis in the second quarter of the…
Global tax accord could earn Canada up to $4.5 billion per year, says Freeland | CBC News
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada stands to make as much as…
U.S. confirms it will accept Canadian travellers with mixed vaccines | CBC News
Following weeks of speculation, the United States announced late Friday it will…
Is gas really heading to $2 a litre in Canada? | Financial Post
Opinion: The Clean Fuel Standard is going to cost the average Canadian…
Cannabis has been legal almost 3 years, yet retailers say banks are shutting them out | CBC News
As the third anniversary of Canada’s legalization of cannabis approaches, retailers say they continue…
Tasha Kheiriddin: CERB problems are bad news for proponents of a guaranteed basic income | National Post
If one truly values ‘fairness,’ one should think twice about a universal…
New data suggests Canada’s ‘gamble’ on delaying, mixing and matching COVID-19 vaccines paid off | CBC News
New Canadian data suggests the strategy to delay and mix second doses…
B.C. woman awakes to a hole in her roof and a space rock on her pillow – Victoria News
Golden resident concludes that a meteor spotted in the area that night…
Tea and sympathy: Canadian frigate helps Royal Navy solve a high-seas catering crisis | CBC News
The Canadian Navy came through for its U.K. cousin this past week…
A hospital in Windsor has fired 57 employees for not getting vaccinated | National Post
Windsor Regional Hospital says 98.5% of its workforce complied with mandate to…
Revealed: pipeline company paid Minnesota police for arresting and surveilling protesters
Enbridge picked up the tab for police wages, training and equipment –…
Pandora Papers: ‘This is a global network of which Canada is a hub’ – National | Globalnews.ca
The Pandora Papers may not have a heavy focus on Canada but…
Afghans who worked for Canadian military still waiting for rescue from Kabul safe house
Nearly 100 people in all, including 32 children, are living together in…
Beaten for speaking Blackfoot at residential school, this Siksika woman now teaches it in the same building | CBC Radio
Vivian Ayoungman was forced to attend Old Sun Indian Residential School in the 1950s, where she was beaten for speaking her own language. Decades later, the building has been repurposed as a community college to preserve Siksika language and culture.
Source: Beaten for speaking Blackfoot at residential school, this Siksika woman now teaches it in the same building | CBC Radio
Catholic Church apologises for century of abuses in Canada’s residential schools
The Catholic Church apologized “unequivocally” on Friday to Canada’s indigenous peoples for…
Blame first-past-the-post for Canada’s growing rural-urban divide | CBC News
Canada’s rural-urban divide wasn’t nearly so pronounced in decades past. But our…
Suicides in Canada fell 32 per cent in first year of pandemic compared with year before, report finds – The Globe and Mail
Study published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine says…
Study claiming 1 in 1,000 risk of heart inflammation after COVID vaccine got calculation wrong | National Post
The study authors have requested the paper be retracted because the incorrect…
Canada: mountain goat kills attacking grizzly bear with ‘dagger-like’ horns
Forensic necropsy of a female grizzly bear suggests she was killed by…
200 Afghans, mostly women escape Afghanistan with help of Canadian charity | Globalnews.ca
Nearly 100 girls have managed to flee to Pakistan with their families…
Canada is a pedestrian nation
A motley crew of transparently unserious ‘leaders’ are vying to become the…
The nurses who organized BC’s hospital protests aren’t who you think they are – BC News
An organization claiming to represent Canadian nurses which spreads dangerous misinformation about…
Drug Users Are Suing the Canadian Government Over the War on Drugs – VICE
Source: Drug Users Are Suing the Canadian Government Over the War on…
No, Canadians do not flee en masse for US health care
Researchers have called this idea a “persistent myth.” Source: No, Canadians do…
TekSavvy Takes Pirate Site Blocking Battle to Canada’s Supreme Court * TorrentFreak
Internet provider TekSavvy is taking the legal battle over Canada’s first pirate…
BlackBerry’s path from smartphone roadkill to smart car pioneer — with a brief detour into meme stock
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/blackberry-automotive-future-1.6143706
Opinion | China traps Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig in a kangaroo court to serve the CCP – The Washington Post
To serve the Communist Party, China has trapped a business consultant and…
Canadian cannabis companies are still not profitable almost three years into full legalization, earnings show
Source: Canadian cannabis companies are still not profitable almost three years into…
Housing scarcity won’t be fixed by expecting seniors to downsize, experts say
Economist Mike Moffatt says once cities accept that seniors want to remain…
Taxing homeowners to curb demand will not restore order to Canada’s housing prices | Financial Post
Undersupply has been an issue building for decades. To reach the G7…
Here’s what Canada’s business leaders think about heading back to the office | CBC News
After 500 days of working from home, CBC News reached out to…
Estimating the Structural Housing Shortage in Canada: Are We 100 Thousand or Nearly 2 Million Units Short?
Source: Estimating the Structural Housing Shortage in Canada: Are We 100 Thousand…
Canada’s pandemic warning system was understaffed and unready when COVID hit, review finds | CBC News
An important position at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) was…
Evidence lost in case of soldier accused of feeding cannabis-laced cupcakes to gunners, lawyer says | CBC News
Evidence in a bizarre case of a Canadian soldier accused of drugging…
Canada’s Mobile Data Prices vs the World in One Chart [PIC]
According to Tefficient, Canada has the world’s most expensive wireless pricing. Source:…
Finance minister says Canada is committed to proposed global corporate tax rate
Source: Finance minister says Canada is committed to proposed global corporate tax…
That COVID-19 tracking app you were urged to download? It didn’t deliver — ‘far from it’ | National Post
After $20 million spent, a mere 20 per cent uptake and low…
Canadian vets push to have Afghan interpreters fast-tracked to Canada amid U.S. pullout
As the U.S. continues to pull out of Afghanistan, Canadian veterans are…
UN calls for investigations after mass graves discovered at former residential schools
On 27 May, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation in Kamloops, B.C.,…
Canada to ban sale of new fuel-powered cars and light trucks from 2035
Canada will ban the sale of fuel-burning new cars and light-duty trucks…
Calgary man wins potato chip contest with ‘Jalapeno Mac N’ Cheese’ flavour
Jalapeno Mac N’ Cheese beat the competition to become Canadians’ preferred flavour…
‘They need to be charged’: Federal minister on residential school perpetrators
Canada’s minister of northern affairs says the religious leaders who operated the…
Residential schools: A day of remembrance is not enough for a century of forgetting
Trudeau has decided there will be a national holiday to remember the…
Opinion: Worried the government will censor your cat videos? The rest of Bill C-10 is even worse
The debate about the government’s attempt to regulate the internet is far…
Lumber firms applaud, home builders angry as U.S. moves to double Canadian lumber tariffs | Woodworking Network
The U.S. Department of Commerce says it will seek to double tariff…
Condo developer plans to buy $1-billion worth of single-family houses in Canada for rentals
Toronto company is betting an investment concept that has already proven lucrative…
This doctor tried to raise alarms about residential schools 100 years ago but was ignored
Dr. Peter H. Bryce tried to sound the alarm on residential schools…
Mysterious brain syndrome grips Canada | Deccan Herald
Forty-eight people from the same small Canadian province struck with a baffling…
