News/Canada (Page 32)

Canada Use this tool to calculate the most expensive home you could buy based on your income and passing the mortgage “stress test.” Graeme Bruce · CBC News · Posted: Apr 10, 2024 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: April 10 New homes are built in a housing construction developmentContinue Reading

Canada 10 people in Kingston, Ont., sent to hospital with eye injuries. 2 patients blame a foam partyTen people in the southeastern Ontario city were treated for chemical eye exposure Monday and needed to have their eyes flushed after what two patients describe as a foam party gone wrong. Hospital confirmsContinue Reading

A Canadian DNA laboratory knowingly delivered prenatal paternity test results that routinely identified the wrong biological fathers — ruling out the real dads — and left a trail of shattered lives around the globe, a CBC News investigation has found. Harvey Tenenbaum, the owner of Viaguard Accu-Metrics, told a CBCContinue Reading

They were reckless and malicious, manipulating the brain neurochemistry of young students, getting them hooked on social media platforms, and, in doing so, causing widespread damage and disruption to the education system. These are just some of the, as of yet, unproven allegations, made by four Ontario school boards in their recently filed statements of claimContinue Reading

If anybody deserves to celebrate the surge of excitement hovering over women’s basketball, it’s Lisa Thomaidis, an iconic part of basketball history both in Canada and abroad. During her current tenure as head coach for the University of Saskatchewan women’s basketball team, the program has been a perennial power, capturingContinue Reading

Canada·First Person Alan Dyer was a Winnipeg kid in the space-race days of the 1960s when he decided he needed to experience a total solar eclipse. This week, he’s on the road with a carload of gear to see his 17th. I was in a snowy Manitoba field for myContinue Reading

Canada·First Person When her grandma asked Bonnie Sutherland to officiate her funeral, she felt caught between her roles of granddaughter and minister, and mourner and comforter. I felt caught between roles as a granddaughter, minister, mourner and comforter Bonnie Sutherland · for CBC First Person · Posted: Apr 03, 2024Continue Reading

The federal government’s plans to launch a national school food program might have left some people with more questions than answers about how it will actually work. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he hopes the program will deliver meals to 400,000 children per year by the 2024-25 school year. “We all want kids toContinue Reading

Canada Boxer Claire Hafner’s brain may help future women athletes, patients with neurodegenerative conditions, survivors of intimate partner violence and soldiers with head trauma. She’s one of 17 Canadian athletes participating in a landmark study of the effects of head trauma on 900 living athletes, mostly from combat sports. ClaireContinue Reading