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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

The system for testing truck drivers in Ontario has been compromised by bribes, forged documents and rigged testing, says a memo leaked to CBC’s Marketplace by an industry insider. A subsequent hidden camera investigation by Marketplace reveals that the training students get ahead of that test can be just asContinue Reading

Canada Several models of Fisher-Price Snuga Swings are being recalled across Canada after manufacturer Mattel received reports of five suffocation deaths involving infants.  Snuga Swings should not be used for sleep, Health Canada warns Several models of Fisher-Price Snuga Swings are being recalled across Canada after manufacturer Mattel received reportsContinue Reading

Canada The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a food recall warning for certain brands of beef jelly tongue products in Ontario due to possible contamination with Listeria. Consumers urged to throw out or return affected productsCBC News · Posted: Oct 05, 2024 9:13 AM EDT | Last Updated: October 5 TheContinue Reading