News/Canada (Page 20)

Outside a southwest Toronto cheese business last November, 69-year-old Mohamed Nizam and a dozen of his neighbours stood chanting: “Fix the heat! Fix the heat! No more harassment!”  Nizam told CBC News earlier this month that the group of tenants, who live at a building called the Mello Court ApartmentsContinue Reading

British Columbia At least 2 dead in B.C. after mudslides, washouts: RCMPA woman who was missing after her home was washed away in a mudslide in Coquitlam, B.C., on Saturday has been found dead, police say. Police say the woman’s home was washed away Saturday in a mudslide triggered by torrentialContinue Reading

Canada·First Person A newspaper photo gave Amy Reiswig the name of a man who’d helped save her father’s life more than 60 years earlier. Meeting him allowed her to say thank you, while also giving him a chance to see how just doing his job had such a big impactContinue Reading

Select an issue:Economy Education and child care Environment and climate change Health care Housing Indigenous relationships and reconciliation Mental health and addiction Public safety Seniors Updates to this feature:Oct. 16, 2024: All entries on the B.C. Conservatives’ platform updated; B.C. NDP platform on education and child care; mental health andContinue Reading

Toronto Amid a recent string of arrests targeting a transnational criminal enterprise allegedly led by former Canadian Olympian Ryan Wedding, a family is still left with at least one key question about a double murder in Caledon last year: Who killed Jagtar and Harbhajan Sidhu? 2023 mistaken identity shooting ofContinue Reading

Canada Three tobacco giants face the prospect of paying close to $25 billion to provinces and territories and more than $4 billion to tens of thousands of Quebec smokers and their loved ones as part of a corporate restructuring process triggered by a long-running legal battle. Proposal calls for compensation forContinue Reading

Canada Is your friend selling Taylor Swift tickets? Make sure it’s not a hackerAs Taylor Swift is set to embark on the Canadian leg of her Eras world tour, scammers are taking advantage of the insatiable demand for tickets to the sold-out shows. CBC News · Posted: Oct 18, 2024 4:00 AMContinue Reading

By 8 a.m. — as most people begin weekday morning routines or sit down for breakfast — Debbie Marshall’s already got pots heating on the stove and meat thawing, and is prepping fruit and veggies. Every morning, from an apartment-sized school kitchen in St. John’s, she whips up healthy, hot lunches dailyContinue Reading

Pucking Around. The Penalty Box. Pucked. No, we’re not getting all the obvious hockey puns out of our system before we dig deep on the hockey romance book genre. These are actual best-selling book titles. If you’ve perused the romance section of any book store lately, you’ve likely noticed some of theseContinue Reading